From g.stjohn at warpmail.net Sat Dec 20 00:37:21 2008 From: g.stjohn at warpmail.net (Graham St John) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:37:21 -0600 Subject: [Dancecult-l] call for panelists - "Trance: the Techniques and Cultures of Re-enchantment" at the SAC Conference, Portland April 1-5, 2009. Message-ID: Apologies for the late notice but I'm looking for participants to a panel I'm proposing to the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness conference to be held in Portland Oregon April 1-5, 2009. The conference theme is Bridging Nature and Human Nature http://www.sacaaa.org/ The panel theme is as follows Trance: the Techniques and Cultures of Re-enchantment This interdisciplinary panel seeks participants researching trance experience and culture in the modern world. From psytrance culture to the Ordo Templi Orientis, countercultures, pagans, secret societies and dance cults have embraced the trance experience, in one way or another, as a technique of re/enchantment. From mass open-air dance events to private rites, new cultural and religious movements provide the context for the achievement of extraordinary states of consciousness. What's more, through the use of entheogens, music, and media technologies, these movements seek solutions to contemporary crises of self and ecology. What is the science and what are the technologies of entrancement? How is trance implicated in strategies of re-enchantment in the present? These and related questions will be discussed and explored. Presenters will have 15 minutes. Please send me a title with 200 word abstract. Given that the deadline for panel submissions is Jan 9, I will need your abstracts in advance of that - Jan 5 should be good. Once again, sorry about the late notice. Graham St John g.stjohn at warpmail.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From g.stjohn at warpmail.net Tue Dec 23 01:21:11 2008 From: g.stjohn at warpmail.net (Graham St John) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:21:11 -0600 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Announcing Dancecult, the Journal, and call for Content Message-ID: Announcing a new journal Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture (DJEDMC) http://www.dancecult.net/journal/index.php/journal The journal is an extension of the international EDMC research network Dancecult (which has a home at www.dancecult.net). It uses the Open Journal Systems software developed by the Public Knowledge Project, and has an advisory board of international experts. Idea and Scope Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). A platform for interdisciplinary scholarship on the shifting terrain of EDMCs worldwide, the journal houses research exploring the sites, technologies, and cultures of electronic music in historical and contemporary perspectives. Playing host to studies of emergent forms of electronic music production, performance, distribution, and reception, as a portal for cutting-edge research on the relation between bodies, technologies, and cyberspace, as a medium through which the cutural politics of dance is critically investigated, and as a venue for innovative multimedia projects, Dancecult is the forum for research on EDMCs. From dancehall to raving, club cultures to sound systems, disco to techno, breakbeat to psytrance, hip hop to dub-step, IDM to noisecore, nortec to bloghouse, global EDMCs are a shifting spectrum of scenes, genres, and aesthetics. What is the role of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion and spirituality in these formations? How have technologies, mind alterants, and popular culture conditioned this proliferation, and how has electronic music filtered into cinema, literature and everyday life? How does existing critical theory enable understanding of EDMCs, and how might the latter challenge the assumptions of our inherited heuristics? What is the role of the DJ in diverse genres, scenes, subcultures, and/or neotribes? As the journal of the international EDMC research network, Dancecult welcomes submissions from scholars addressing these and related inquiries in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, history, media and communications studies, politics, legal studies, criminology, studies in religion and other fields. Content Besides editorials, featured articles (5000-8000 words), and book/ film reviews (1500 words), the journal will publish articles "from the floor", i.e. shorter peer-reviewed pieces, which include field reports, mini-ethnographies, and interviews (1000-3000 words). Solicited by the editors, Dancecult will also feature Conversations designed to provoke dialogue concerning contemporary issues in the field. DJEDMC will be published biannually. Submissions This is an open call for content to the first edition of Dancecult. The journal features a fully electronic submission and reviewing procedure. Once you have logged in and registered as an author you will be able to submit content to the journal by clicking on "Author" in your "User Home" column. Once submitted, you are able to track the status of your submission. Dancecult uses the Open Journal Systems software developed by the Public Knowledge Project. http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs Huge thanks to Managing Editor, Eliot Bates, who has been instrumental in the journal's technical development and web-hosting. Graham St John (Chief Editor) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From teleomorph at gmail.com Tue Dec 23 20:37:35 2008 From: teleomorph at gmail.com (Evan Martin) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:37:35 -0800 Subject: [Dancecult-l] ....soothcircuitry of subhistorical celebrations. Message-ID: I uploaded some poems I wrote years ago and I thought 2 of them in particular might be enjoyed some on this list: Transmusical Metaphors (or, The Trippy Tribal Trumpets of Trance) and My Life as a Trance Party Happy New Year, Evan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: