Technomad - Global Raving Countercultures - Graham St John
Secret Sonic Societies and Other Renegades of Sound
Technomad - Global Raving Countercultures - Graham St John
Graham St John [+]
Griffith University
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Graham St John is the author of several books including Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (2012), Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures (2009) and the edited collections The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance (2010), Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance (2008), Rave Culture and Religion (2004) and FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor (2001). He is Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University and is Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.
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Chapter 3, “Secret Sonic Societies and Other Renegades of Sound,” explores initiatives in the U.S., Canada, and Australia inspired by Spiral Tribe and the broader techno-punktraveler convergence in which they were deeply implicated. Posited as illustrative of the resurgent carnival,