[Dancecult-l] ravers in Ibiza and raving appropriators

[Graham St John]

Interesting article - Thanks for the link Neil.

On another note - I'm wondering if anyone has any references to 
research which specifically investigates and discusses examples or 
episodes of cultural appropriation (ie primitivism and orientalism) 
within EDMC (trance or otherwise). I think this an important area of 
research and linked to studies of neo-colonialism. One of the reasons 
I am interested in this that I am intrigued by the frequent 
circulation of the kind of cautionary tale within anthropology and 
cultural studies in particular which appears to be general rather 
than specific, often trotted out by those who are remote from the 
subject matter, and which may sometimes serve an unhelpful cultural 
policing role. I am interested especially in ethnogaphic studies 
which make interventions in this area.

Thanks

Graham

At 12:45 AM -0400 5/28/07, Nibelungentreue at aol.com wrote:
>Adam & anyone else who may be interested,
>don't panic; that particular chapter is actually in English, so 
>nothing in principle to stop you using it to flesh out your 
>discussion of Simon Reynolds et al. Also, if you google "sonic war 
>machines" you'll be directed to a discussion on the Radical 
>Philsophy website of an event which featured Kode9's theory, as well 
>as a whole host of other theorists discussing electronic music. 
>Although that particular reviewer's comments are not overtly 
>favourable, I think it should be borne in mind, as Tobias rightly 
>says, that the research is currently in embryonic form, so it is 
>worth monitoring its future development.
>
>Graham's citation on the control of space/tourist economies could, I 
>believe, be plugged into some of the speed/violence issues we're 
>touching on here. Lancaster University are hosting some interesting 
>research papers along these lines, not least of all, "Sea, Sun, Sex 
>and Biopolitics", which frames its argument with reference to this 
>opening quotation:
>
>"Four in the morning..bottles smashed onto the pavement but the 
>human swarm hears nothing over the music pounding from the bars. The 
>doors of the Nightlife disco open and two young men barrel past the 
>bouncers, vomit smeared on their bare chests. They embrace, then 
>wrestle, then soil each other's hair. Five teenage girls watch and 
>applaud until one is grabbed by a bouncer and carried on his 
>shoulders up the steps. One of her friends lunges...the bouncer 
>whirls and his captive's knee-high white boots catch the lunger in 
>the face. She howls...."
>
>Shortly thereafter the authors launch into their analysis of Ibiza 
>as typifying the emergence of a new kind of social space 
>transfigured by global capital, a post-oedipal social space where 
>the only prohibition is the "prohibition to forbid". Anyone who 
>perseveres with this piece may then feel inclined to read the other 
>paper by the same authors, "Enjoy your Fight!"- an evocative 
>analysis of the text Fightclub, which, as per Ibiza, featured as its 
>soundtrack an elecronica score, (in the latter case, courtesy of the 
>Chemical Brothers). I wouldn't discount the wider cultural 
>significance of Fightclub, with its central theme of violence, given 
>that it is enormously popular among young people today, many of whom 
>are drawn to EDMC. If some parallels could be drawn, to my mind, 
>this also prefigures to some extent an analysis of EDMC in terms of 
>Maffesoli's famous thesis of "The Time of the Tribes". Anyway, here 
>is the reference to the Ibiza piece:
>
>http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/papers/diken-laustsen-sea-sun-sex-biopolitics.pdf
>
>That's all I'll say about it for now though.
>
>Best,
>
>Neil Huthnance
>
>
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