[Dancecult-l] Change of PhD direction- refs for party logistics info

[Graham St John]

Charlie - that book is Gilmore, Lee and Mark Van Proyen (eds) 
Afterburn: Reflections on Burning Man. UNM Press, 2005 which may hold 
some use regarding the sculpting of the vibe. I suspect Lee Gilmore's 
book coming out next year i think on Burning Man will offer added 
insights. Depth ethnographies of dance music cultures are scarce in 
publication, though im excited about Luther Elliot's recently 
completed PhD thesis : Mobile Consciousness, Flexible Culture: Notes 
on the Rise and Fall of Goa Trance. You might contact him about it: 
luther at NYU.EDU. As for heterotopia and festival building - theres 
always that which ive long called 'the old girl', that is, the 
product of my own years of graduate toil: 
http://www.confest.org/thesis/

Graham

At 05:57 -0700 20/10/06, charles de Ledesma wrote:
>Hi everyone, my PhD focus has changed from a more general overview 
>of the pys trance phenomenom to a tigher anatomy of a party 
>situation. To this end I'm now looking at theoretical stuff  like 
>Latour's 'Action-Network-Theory', virtual communities, network 
>society, Hetherington's development of the heterotopia, 
>occcasionalism and utopia concepts,and the like.
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>But, has anyone seem study/papers on the logistics of party-making 
>or even better, any theory on the 'party-process'? I like the idea 
>of looking at this process (abstract or in situ) as a 'collection of 
>technologies' building the scene for the arrival of the 
>communitas-laden moment ...any leads??Of course, this doesn't need 
>to be just from the land of psy trance....
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>Graham - what was that book on Burning Man you showed me one 
>steaming afternoon in Portugal?
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>Regards, Charlie in London.
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