Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival

Graham St John

doi:10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.03

Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival

Graham St John

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This article explores the religio-spiritual characteristics of psytrance (psychedelic trance), attending specifically to the characteristics of what I call neotrance apparent within the contemporary trance event, the countercultural inheritance of the “tribal” psytrance festival, and the dramatizing of participants’ “ultimate concerns” within the festival framework. An exploration of the psychedelic festival offers insights on ecstatic (self-transcendent), performative (self-expressive) and reflexive (conscious alternative) trajectories within psytrance music culture. I address this dynamic with reference to Portugal’s Boom Festival.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	35-64
Number of pages	30
Journal	Dancecult
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.03
Publication status	Published - 21 Sep 2009
Externally published	Yes

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