[Dancecult-l] Academic Quests in EDMC?

[Graham St John]

Hi Ryan

You raise a good question. Im not aware of any departments 
"specialising" in psytrance per se, or even EDM.  Maybe someone else 
here might prove me wrong .... I guess approaching an individual who 
is in an appropriate institutional context capable of supporting your 
project, in a region most suited to your project, is a good way 
forward. Your research, as far as I can tell from the information 
you've provided, is a very new area - most scholars with any 
specialisation in this are graduate students or fairly fresh out of 
graduate school.

For my own part, while electronic trance is one of my interests, 
unfortunately I am currently not in a context enabling the support of 
graduate students.

Sounds like you may have already done this but you could re/visit the 
People page on the dancecult list and approach those with senior 
experience in EDM studies for their advice.
http://www.dancecult.net/people.php

There is certainly scope for a "Prospective Graduate Students of 
EDMC" page on the Dancecult website, which could list and feature 
departments and schools of varying disciplines based on information 
provided by contributors (i.e. staff in those departments and 
schools). Perhaps we could russle something up - if anyone has 
suggestions.

In addition we could also feature Undergraduate Courses in EDMC page. 
I know there are number of people here running such courses, and a 
list of these with brief descriptions and links could also work.

Thoughts appreciated

Graham




>Hello Dancecult subscribers, 
>   I am a prospective Grad student specializing in ethnomusicology and cultural
>anthropology.... I have done extensive research of the PSY-trance phenomenon
>in the Midwestern United States and have written about spirituality and
>secular/sacred ideology within EDMC and ritualized trance dance performance in
>world history and the new age.  Other areas of study include Sufism and South
>Asian culture. 
>   I am looking for a school where I may engage these topics (and more) and
>also have resources within the academic community.  I have been looking around
>many different schools and still feel like I am in the dark... I've checked
>out the universities within the dancecult scholar list, but I am wondering if
>there are some good schools not listed.
>
>   I would greatly appreciate some feedback about different acamdemic programs
>and scholarly resource (anywhere).  Any sort of information or discussion
>about institutions and grad programs would be enjoyed.
>
>Thanx,
>Ryan "MOLIMO" 
>
>
>
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