[Dancecult-l] Anthropology Colloquium at UW Madison: Graham St. John, Nov 14

[Graham St John]

Late notice i know [sorry!] but in case anyone's in the Madison 
neighborhood and out for a stroll tomorrow. :

Part of the Department of Anthropology  Colloquium Series:

>Global Psytrance Culture: Speed Tribes and Hyper Liminality
>                                        
>by Dr. Graham St. John
>
>Wednesday, November 14th, 12:30-2:00
>8417 Sewell Social Science Building
>
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>Abstract:  This presentation critically revisits Victor Turner's 
>concept of "liminality" in the light of international research on 
>psychedelic trance, or psytrance, culture. Electronic dance music 
>cultures (EDMCs) (including rave, techno, drum-n-bass, hip hop and 
>psytrance) have become popular fields of ecstatic experience 
>attractive to growing populations worldwide. Anthropologists and 
>other researchers have sought theoretical models assisting 
>understanding of these developments in youth and music cultures. A 
>cornerstone of ritual analysis and a critical component of Turner's 
>processual model of ritual and performance, "liminality" has proven 
>especially popular within the emergent field of EDMC studies. Much 
>of this research has offered unmodified applications of Turnerian 
>theory on "ritual" and "ritual-like" phenomena. Part of an effort to 
>devise heuristics appropriate to understanding contemporary youth 
>"neo-tribalism", lifestyle and performance, as well as contemporary 
>religion, this presentation draws from my ongoing critical 
>ethnography to offer some insights on what I call the protracted and 
>hyper liminal characteristics of psytrance. That is, attending to 
>recent research at psytrance festivals in Israel and Portugal, I 
>explore the accelerated and complex nature of liminality in the 
>present.
>
>
>Margaret Brandenburg
>Administrator
>Department of Anthropology
>University of Wisconsin-Madison
>1180 Observatory Drive
>5243 Wm. Sewell Social Science Building
>Madison, WI  53706
>
>mbranden at wisc.edu
>Phone:  608-262-2869
>Fax:  608-265-4216
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