From annagavanas at hotmail.com Fri Feb 5 09:06:02 2010 From: annagavanas at hotmail.com (Anna Gavanas) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 03:06:02 -0500 Subject: [Dancecult-l] new dancecult issue on DJ culture: call for participation! Message-ID: "DJ Culture": special issue for Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Call for Participation We are guest editing a special issue on DJ culture for Dancecult (http://dj.dancecult.net) scheduled for possible publication in 2011. This is a call for submissions for an interdisciplinary collection of original articles, ?from the floor? essays, artwork, and electronic multimedia on DJ culture. The issue addresses itself specifically to the relations of pleasure and power that intersect in the space between the DJ, the dance floor and the rest of the club world. Multimedia submissions are encouraged, including copyright permitted photographs, links on Youtube, Soundcloud, etc. Our special issue collects reflections from DJ perspectives on the visionary and social dimensions of DJ culture in Electronic Dance Music (EDM). Electronic dance music, and its DJs, producers and promoters have become increasingly central to popular culture in its various spatial configurations; translocally, glocally, as well as transnationally. The DJ has been a key figure in popular music since the 1970s, as the superstars and gatekeepers of today's music and club industry. As artists and specialized guides to musical worlds, DJs are uniquely positioned in today's music scenes, but they usually tell their stories through soundscapes, weaving together auditory elements and influencing the bodies, moods and emotions of dance crowds. This issue offers creative and intellectual accounts from DJ perspectives, featuring contributions from established DJs/writers situated in various kinds of spatial and cultural configurations. Submissions may address the legal, technological, commercial and social developments and conditions that constrain and liberate DJs, the power dynamics of the music scene, and its position in wider socio-historical processes. Contributors may investigate situated ?behind the scenes? experiences of DJs, producers and club promoters in EDM. In addition, they explore conditions for belonging and recognition across various genres. Based on lived experiences, the issue discusses the ways the media and music industries package and categorize DJs and their scenes, as well as their strategies to negotiate and exit such limitations. For instance, contributors raise issues around gendering, sexualization and ethnification. Please do consult author?s guidelines: http://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/journal/about/submissions#authorGuidelines and previous issues: http://dj.dancecult.net Please consider making your contribution as either a featured article (5000-8000 words) or a ?From the Floor? essay (1500-3000 words) and send a 150 word abstract to the guest editors below by May 1st 2010. The deadline for first drafts is December 1st 2010. The contributions will initially be reviewed by the guest editors and subsequently be peer reviewed by the journal. Please send submissions to both guest editors via electronic mail: Bernardo Attias: bernardo.attias at csun.edu Anna Gavanas: anna.gavanas at framtidsstudier.se About the Guest Editors Bernardo Alexander Attias (DJ Professor Ben) Dr. Attias is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies, part of the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication at California State University, Northridge. His research is in the areas of cultural studies, performance studies, and freedom of speech; his current research focuses on the legal, aesthetic, and cultural implications of the turntable. He has also been active as a DJ and performance artist for over twenty years; he is known for his eclectic blending of various elements of global urban dance music, including house, hip-hop, techno, and drum and bass, with sloppy funk, old jazz, lounge, and swing. Anna Gavanas (DJ Gavana aka DJplaneten) Dr. Gavanas is Associate Professor at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm/ Sweden. As a social anthropologist she has published on a number of international policy topics. She has also explored popular culture issues around European DJ culture, technology and gender. Her latest publications include the book ?Feedback Loop; gender and popular music? (published in Swedish 2009 at Makadam publishers). Gavanas has been active as a DJ in Sweden, as well as in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany, for over 10 years (spanning over genres like UK steppas dub, dubstep, techno and electronica) and is also producing various forms of electronic music as Gavana as well as DJplaneten (see www.soundcloud.com/gavana and www.soundcloud.com/djplaneten). _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks Grraham From wayneandwax at gmail.com Wed Feb 10 15:42:34 2010 From: wayneandwax at gmail.com (wayne marshall) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:42:34 -0500 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Graham, I'm not sure how particular you are about which elements constitute rave-ness, but this article about sha3bi street dances in Cairo (and relationship to Sufi dance traditions) will likely be of some interest to you and others on the list: http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=580 I love the sound system photo in particular. Cheers, Wayne On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Graham St John wrote: > Just a quick question - I'm wondering if anyone knows about the existence > of anything that might approximate "raves" among Muslim youth in any part of > the globe? And if there might be any research / documentation available? > > Thanks > > Grraham > > _______________________________________________ > Dancecult-l mailing list > Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org > No commercial use without permission > www.dancecult.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From r.till at hud.ac.uk Wed Feb 10 17:19:10 2010 From: r.till at hud.ac.uk (Rupert Till) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:19:10 +0000 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Sufi practice relates generally to this, there is some good summary about it in Rouget's book Music and trance, pp. 255-7 for example. Sufi traditions explore ecstasy, and so are probably relevant. cheers Rupert On 11/02/2010 05:40, "Graham St John" wrote: Just a quick question - I'm wondering if anyone knows about the existence of anything that might approximate "raves" among Muslim youth in any part of the globe? And if there might be any research / documentation available? Thanks Grraham _______________________________________________ Dancecult-l mailing list Dancecult-l at listcultures.org http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org No commercial use without permission www.dancecult.net ________________________________ --- This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability. From gonzo at quadrantcrossing.org Wed Feb 10 17:56:55 2010 From: gonzo at quadrantcrossing.org (> ! <) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:56:55 -0800 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >From what I know through the Upgrade International network of media arts, there's raves all over Turkey, and a huge media arts scene there as well, with plenty of action in Istanbul: http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade/ http://www.nomad-tv.net/ Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim populations... The question would need opening up. Do you mean to find raves in specifically Muslim countries -- ie in places where such events would appear (to us Westerners) to be heretic to national culture and law -- ? Ie, say Iran. Or Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, etc. Or is the point to search out "Muslim raves" along the same lines that one would search out explicitly religious "Christian raves" (a la Robin Sylvan)? Or by the fact that there are Muslims in attendance does it make the rave inherently Muslim? If so, then the Israeli trance scene be all "Jewish raves"? Ie, the different shades of Muslim need to be divested, in relation to geography, diaspora, nation, religion, culture... Definitely a fruitful avenue of research. Of course, theoretically charted out by Hakim Bey from the get-go... the TAZ is rooted in heretic Sufi... I wonder if there's a translation in Farsi... or Arabic... best/ t. > Just a quick question - I'm wondering if anyone knows about the > existence of anything that might approximate "raves" among Muslim > youth in any part of the globe? And if there might be any research / > documentation available? > > Thanks > > Grraham > > _______________________________________________ > Dancecult-l mailing list > Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org > No commercial use without permission > www.dancecult.net . . tobias c. van Veen -----------++++ ! http://www.quadrantcrossing.org -- McGill Communication & Philosophy resistance . through . rhythm . ||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||| From ambiont at gmail.com Wed Feb 10 18:35:08 2010 From: ambiont at gmail.com (pavel) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:35:08 +0200 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8f6b83931002100935o536a53b0n958cda3e5c5ff157@mail.gmail.com> hello! > Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim populations... actually, Muslim population isn't really huge in Eastern Europe at all. these are predominantly Christian - or even secular/atheistic countries (especially in case of post-soviet ones). and Muslim communities there are rather traditional and tight - raves seem to be incompatible with their traditions. maybe something like that exists in couple of Balcan countries, where there are more Muslims - this region has club\open-air scenes for sure - and maybe some young Muslims go to raves and parties there. but i'm think those are just a standard type of dance events. but there is some music in East European or Post Soviet states that somehow incorporates/appropriates Muslim music of symbolism. for example, there's a electropop project SuperAlisa from Tatarstan - one of republics of Russian Federation. Tatarstan is a Muslim region (but moderate) and as far as i know they have quite a thriving electronic scene in their capital - Kazan. some SuperAlisa's music is here - http://www.last.fm/music/SuperAlisa, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDP2swojqAA it's not a rave type but funny :) cheers, pavel http://myspace.com/pavelambiont On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM, > ! < wrote: > > >From what I know through the Upgrade International network of media arts, > there's raves all over Turkey, and a huge media arts scene there as well, > with plenty of action in Istanbul: > > http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade/ > http://www.nomad-tv.net/ > > Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim > populations... > > The question would need opening up. Do you mean to find raves in > specifically Muslim countries -- ie in places where such events would > appear > (to us Westerners) to be heretic to national culture and law -- ? Ie, say > Iran. Or Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, etc. > > Or is the point to search out "Muslim raves" along the same lines that one > would search out explicitly religious "Christian raves" (a la Robin > Sylvan)? > > Or by the fact that there are Muslims in attendance does it make the rave > inherently Muslim? If so, then the Israeli trance scene be all "Jewish > raves"? > > Ie, the different shades of Muslim need to be divested, in relation to > geography, diaspora, nation, religion, culture... > > Definitely a fruitful avenue of research. Of course, theoretically charted > out by Hakim Bey from the get-go... the TAZ is rooted in heretic Sufi... I > wonder if there's a translation in Farsi... or Arabic... > > best/ t. > > > > > > Just a quick question - I'm wondering if anyone knows about the > > existence of anything that might approximate "raves" among Muslim > > youth in any part of the globe? And if there might be any research / > > documentation available? > > > > Thanks > > > > Grraham > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dancecult-l mailing list > > Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org > > No commercial use without permission > > www.dancecult.net > > > . > . > tobias c. van Veen -----------++++ ! > http://www.quadrantcrossing.org -- > McGill Communication & Philosophy > resistance . through . rhythm . > ||||||||||||||||||| > |||||||||||||| > ||||||||||||||||||| > ||||||||||||||||||||| > |||||||||||| > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dancecult-l mailing list > Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org > No commercial use without permission > www.dancecult.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gonzo at quadrantcrossing.org Wed Feb 10 18:44:07 2010 From: gonzo at quadrantcrossing.org (> ! <) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:44:07 -0800 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: <8f6b83931002100935o536a53b0n958cda3e5c5ff157@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Yes, my apologies, by Eastern Europe I had meant to group (perhaps erroneously) the Balkans. > sure - and maybe some young Muslims go to raves and parties there. but i'm > think those are just a standard type of dance events. But this is the nut of the question -- why would "Muslim raves" be any different by virtue of culture or default religious upbringing? etc. best/ t. > hello! > >> Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim > populations... > > actually, Muslim population isn't really huge in Eastern Europe at all. > these are predominantly Christian - or even secular/atheistic countries > (especially in case of post-soviet ones). and Muslim communities there are > rather traditional and tight - raves seem to be incompatible with their > traditions. maybe something like that exists in couple of Balcan countries, > where there are more Muslims - this region has club\open-air scenes for > sure - and maybe some young Muslims go to raves and parties there. but i'm > think those are just a standard type of dance events. > > but there is some music in East European or Post Soviet states that somehow > incorporates/appropriates Muslim music of symbolism. for example, there's a > electropop project SuperAlisa from Tatarstan - one of republics of Russian > Federation. Tatarstan is a Muslim region (but moderate) and as far as i know > they have quite a thriving electronic scene in their capital - Kazan. some > SuperAlisa's music is here - http://www.last.fm/music/SuperAlisa, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDP2swojqAA > it's not a rave type but funny :) > > cheers, > > pavel > > http://myspace.com/pavelambiont > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM, > ! < wrote: > >> >>> From what I know through the Upgrade International network of media arts, >> there's raves all over Turkey, and a huge media arts scene there as well, >> with plenty of action in Istanbul: >> >> http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade/ >> http://www.nomad-tv.net/ >> >> Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim >> populations... >> >> The question would need opening up. Do you mean to find raves in >> specifically Muslim countries -- ie in places where such events would >> appear >> (to us Westerners) to be heretic to national culture and law -- ? Ie, say >> Iran. Or Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, etc. >> >> Or is the point to search out "Muslim raves" along the same lines that one >> would search out explicitly religious "Christian raves" (a la Robin >> Sylvan)? >> >> Or by the fact that there are Muslims in attendance does it make the rave >> inherently Muslim? If so, then the Israeli trance scene be all "Jewish >> raves"? >> >> Ie, the different shades of Muslim need to be divested, in relation to >> geography, diaspora, nation, religion, culture... >> >> Definitely a fruitful avenue of research. Of course, theoretically charted >> out by Hakim Bey from the get-go... the TAZ is rooted in heretic Sufi... I >> wonder if there's a translation in Farsi... or Arabic... >> >> best/ t. >> >> >> >> >>> Just a quick question - I'm wondering if anyone knows about the >>> existence of anything that might approximate "raves" among Muslim >>> youth in any part of the globe? And if there might be any research / >>> documentation available? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Grraham >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dancecult-l mailing list >>> Dancecult-l at listcultures.org >>> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org >>> No commercial use without permission >>> www.dancecult.net >> >> >> . >> . >> tobias c. van Veen -----------++++ ! >> http://www.quadrantcrossing.org -- >> McGill Communication & Philosophy >> resistance . through . rhythm . >> ||||||||||||||||||| >> |||||||||||||| >> ||||||||||||||||||| >> ||||||||||||||||||||| >> |||||||||||| >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dancecult-l mailing list >> Dancecult-l at listcultures.org >> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org >> No commercial use without permission >> www.dancecult.net >> . . tobias c. van Veen -----------++++ ! http://www.quadrantcrossing.org -- McGill Communication & Philosophy resistance . through . rhythm . ||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||| From bodywerk at hotmail.com Thu Feb 11 02:38:33 2010 From: bodywerk at hotmail.com (Beata Beatrix) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:38:33 +0000 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: References: <8f6b83931002100935o536a53b0n958cda3e5c5ff157@mail.gmail.com>, Message-ID: Hi, Sufi tradition has its on trance culture, yes, but it will not be very correct to take it as a contamporary rave cuture; it is one of the traditional and religious rave. Also taking Turkey as a muslim country will not be very correct as indeed it is a secular country where most of people are muslim. We cannot say the contemporary trance community in Turkey (it is more then ten years now till they exist and act) does not consist of religious people, as in Islam, hedonism is a sin. Thanks, Beatrix > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:44:07 -0800 > From: gonzo at quadrantcrossing.org > To: Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > Subject: Re: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves > > > > Yes, my apologies, by Eastern Europe I had meant to group (perhaps > erroneously) the Balkans. > > > sure - and maybe some young Muslims go to raves and parties there. but i'm > > think those are just a standard type of dance events. > > But this is the nut of the question -- why would "Muslim raves" be any > different by virtue of culture or default religious upbringing? etc. > > best/ t. > > > > hello! > > > >> Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim > > populations... > > > > actually, Muslim population isn't really huge in Eastern Europe at all. > > these are predominantly Christian - or even secular/atheistic countries > > (especially in case of post-soviet ones). and Muslim communities there are > > rather traditional and tight - raves seem to be incompatible with their > > traditions. maybe something like that exists in couple of Balcan countries, > > where there are more Muslims - this region has club\open-air scenes for > > sure - and maybe some young Muslims go to raves and parties there. but i'm > > think those are just a standard type of dance events. > > > > but there is some music in East European or Post Soviet states that somehow > > incorporates/appropriates Muslim music of symbolism. for example, there's a > > electropop project SuperAlisa from Tatarstan - one of republics of Russian > > Federation. Tatarstan is a Muslim region (but moderate) and as far as i know > > they have quite a thriving electronic scene in their capital - Kazan. some > > SuperAlisa's music is here - http://www.last.fm/music/SuperAlisa, > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDP2swojqAA > > it's not a rave type but funny :) > > > > cheers, > > > > pavel > > > > http://myspace.com/pavelambiont > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM, > ! < wrote: > > > >> > >>> From what I know through the Upgrade International network of media arts, > >> there's raves all over Turkey, and a huge media arts scene there as well, > >> with plenty of action in Istanbul: > >> > >> http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade/ > >> http://www.nomad-tv.net/ > >> > >> Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim > >> populations... > >> > >> The question would need opening up. Do you mean to find raves in > >> specifically Muslim countries -- ie in places where such events would > >> appear > >> (to us Westerners) to be heretic to national culture and law -- ? Ie, say > >> Iran. Or Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, etc. > >> > >> Or is the point to search out "Muslim raves" along the same lines that one > >> would search out explicitly religious "Christian raves" (a la Robin > >> Sylvan)? > >> > >> Or by the fact that there are Muslims in attendance does it make the rave > >> inherently Muslim? If so, then the Israeli trance scene be all "Jewish > >> raves"? > >> > >> Ie, the different shades of Muslim need to be divested, in relation to > >> geography, diaspora, nation, religion, culture... > >> > >> Definitely a fruitful avenue of research. Of course, theoretically charted > >> out by Hakim Bey from the get-go... the TAZ is rooted in heretic Sufi... I > >> wonder if there's a translation in Farsi... or Arabic... > >> > >> best/ t. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> Just a quick question - I'm wondering if anyone knows about the > >>> existence of anything that might approximate "raves" among Muslim > >>> youth in any part of the globe? And if there might be any research / > >>> documentation available? > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> > >>> Grraham > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Dancecult-l mailing list > >>> Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > >>> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org > >>> No commercial use without permission > >>> www.dancecult.net > >> > >> > >> . > >> . > >> tobias c. van Veen -----------++++ ! > >> http://www.quadrantcrossing.org -- > >> McGill Communication & Philosophy > >> resistance . through . rhythm . > >> ||||||||||||||||||| > >> |||||||||||||| > >> ||||||||||||||||||| > >> ||||||||||||||||||||| > >> |||||||||||| > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Dancecult-l mailing list > >> Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > >> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org > >> No commercial use without permission > >> www.dancecult.net > >> > > > . > . > tobias c. van Veen -----------++++ ! > http://www.quadrantcrossing.org -- > McGill Communication & Philosophy > resistance . through . rhythm . > ||||||||||||||||||| > |||||||||||||| > ||||||||||||||||||| > ||||||||||||||||||||| > |||||||||||| > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dancecult-l mailing list > Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org > No commercial use without permission > www.dancecult.net _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. 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URL: From bodywerk at hotmail.com Thu Feb 11 06:08:21 2010 From: bodywerk at hotmail.com (Beata Beatrix) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:08:21 +0000 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: References: <8f6b83931002100935o536a53b0n958cda3e5c5ff157@mail.gmail.com>, , , Message-ID: Malaysia begin to act in psychedelic scene as well.. they are oginising some parties around Thailand... They have a fun page in facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=1286306731236#!/group.php?gid=30262665133 Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:00:52 -0800 From: teleomorph at gmail.com To: dancecult-l at listcultures.org Subject: Re: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves Dubai has EDM scenes including psytrance: http://www.psychedelic-traveller.net/United_Arab_Emirates http://www.ravelinks.com/links/raves/middle_east/dubai.htm -Evan -- www.teleomorph.com _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft?s powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alasen at cps.ucm.es Thu Feb 11 13:12:21 2010 From: alasen at cps.ucm.es (MARIA AMPARO LASEN DIAZ) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:12:21 +0100 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: References: <8f6b83931002100935o536a53b0n958cda3e5c5ff157@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi, I dare to make a comment, knowing that I am not an expert at all on Islam, but I'm not sure that this statement of hedonism being a sin in Islam, in general, is accurate (just looking around and considering the remains of the Islamic heritage here in Spain doesn't fit with that). I can imagine that in Islam, as in other religions, there are different approachs or views regarding ascetic mistrust of hedonism, and that not all share the more ascetic view, which consider pleasure and hedonism as a sin. All the best Amparo ----- Mensaje original ----- De: Beata Beatrix Fecha: Jueves, Febrero 11, 2010 2:42 Asunto: Re: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves A: gonzo at quadrantcrossing.org, Dancecult > > ? > > Hi, > > ? > > Sufi tradition has its on trance culture, yes, but it will not > be very correct to take it as a contamporary rave cuture; it is > one of the traditional and religious rave. Also taking Turkey as > a muslim country will not be very correct as indeed it is a > secular country where most of people are muslim. We cannot say > the contemporary trance community in Turkey (it is more then ten > years now till they exist and act) does not consist of religious > people, as in Islam, hedonism is a sin. > > ? > > Thanks, > > Beatrix > > > ? > > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:44:07 -0800 > > From: gonzo at quadrantcrossing.org > > To: Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > > Subject: Re: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves > > > > > > > > Yes, my apologies, by Eastern Europe I had meant to group (perhaps > > erroneously) the Balkans. > > > > > sure - and maybe some young Muslims go to raves and parties > there. but i'm > > > think those are just a standard type of dance events. > > > > But this is the nut of the question -- why would "Muslim > raves" be any > > different by virtue of culture or default religious > upbringing? etc. > > > > best/ t. > > > > > > > hello! > > > > > >> Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim > > > populations... > > > > > > actually, Muslim population isn't really huge in Eastern > Europe at all. > > > these are predominantly Christian - or even > secular/atheistic countries > > > (especially in case of post-soviet ones). and Muslim > communities there are > > > rather traditional and tight - raves seem to be incompatible > with their > > > traditions. maybe something like that exists in couple of > Balcan countries, > > > where there are more Muslims - this region has club\open-air > scenes for > > > sure - and maybe some young Muslims go to raves and parties > there. but i'm > > > think those are just a standard type of dance events. > > > > > > but there is some music in East European or Post Soviet > states that somehow > > > incorporates/appropriates Muslim music of symbolism. for > example, there's a > > > electropop project SuperAlisa from Tatarstan - one of > republics of Russian > > > Federation. Tatarstan is a Muslim region (but moderate) and > as far as i know > > > they have quite a thriving electronic scene in their capital > - Kazan. some > > > SuperAlisa's music is here - http://www.last.fm/music/SuperAlisa, > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDP2swojqAA > > > it's not a rave type but funny :) > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > > pavel > > > > > > http://myspace.com/pavelambiont > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM, > ! < > wrote: > > > > > >> > > >>> From what I know through the Upgrade International network > of media arts, > > >> there's raves all over Turkey, and a huge media arts scene > there as well, > > >> with plenty of action in Istanbul: > > >> > > >> http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade/ > > >> http://www.nomad-tv.net/ > > >> > > >> Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim > > >> populations... > > >> > > >> The question would need opening up. Do you mean to find > raves in > > >> specifically Muslim countries -- ie in places where such > events would > > >> appear > > >> (to us Westerners) to be heretic to national culture and > law -- ? Ie, say > > >> Iran. Or Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, etc. > > >> > > >> Or is the point to search out "Muslim raves" along the same > lines that one > > >> would search out explicitly religious "Christian raves" (a > la Robin > > >> Sylvan)? > > >> > > >> Or by the fact that there are Muslims in attendance does it > make the rave > > >> inherently Muslim? If so, then the Israeli trance scene be > all "Jewish > > >> raves"? > > >> > > >> Ie, the different shades of Muslim need to be divested, in > relation to > > >> geography, diaspora, nation, religion, culture... > > >> > > >> Definitely a fruitful avenue of research. Of course, > theoretically charted > > >> out by Hakim Bey from the get-go... the TAZ is rooted in > heretic Sufi... I > > >> wonder if there's a translation in Farsi... or Arabic... > > >> > > >> best/ t. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>> Just a quick question - I'm wondering if anyone knows > about the > > >>> existence of anything that might approximate "raves" among > Muslim> >>> youth in any part of the globe? 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URL: From g.stjohn at warpmail.net Fri Feb 12 09:08:25 2010 From: g.stjohn at warpmail.net (Graham St John) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:08:25 -0800 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Those are good questions Tobias, and yes my initial inquiry was deliberately broad and more to do with establishing the existence of any research, either published or in process, that might shed some light on "Muslim raves" whether Muslims are intentionally appropriating elements of EDMC in the context of "rave" parties to further Islamicism (as in Christian raves), which is far less likely, or whether there are rave or rave-like events that transpire within countries or regions that are predominantly Muslim or have large Muslim populations (as in the case of the psytrance community Epic Tribe in Malaysia linked to by Beata or Evan's link to scenes in Dubai) which is far more likely. There is further evidence of the latter mentioned to me off list - ie psytrance communities in Iran. More generally, my guess is that clubbing (or perhaps "club raves") is more likely observable among Muslim populations around the world but which evince tight regulatory structures and ordinance [as we see for example in China], and /or with significant transient western / tourist populations (as in Dubai or in parts of Indonesia). And that "raves" of the kind that might involve DJs , MDMA and other conscious alterants not including alcohol, although that is itself a considerable challenge within predominently Muslim societies, and where we may find spaces for girls and women to dance relatively unhinderd are very marginal and unpermitted, and probably often operated by middle class experimentalists and entreprenueres in collusion with expatriate operators (and wonky police) - and thus understandably not open to the scrutiny of nosy researchers under the employ of the state. Light shed on what is happening in Israel and Palestinian Territories (as well as Lebanon) might be helpful here, if for nothing more than that many Israeli trance events are apparently characterised by a prejudicial response to Arabs and Arabic sensibilities, ie those not generally regarded as "beautiful people", and all this despite the PLUR-like ideologies - I know Joshua Schmidt has been performing some important work in this regard. The way electronic music has been used to sample and amplify elements of Islam / Sufic tradition is also of interest though, as Wayne indicates, not strictly to do with "rave" - and thanks to him for sending that fascinating article on an Egyptian electro-folk sene. And to Pavel for the interesting electropop example from Tartastan! Im sure that Turkey would offer many examples, though it would be interesting to learn of any similar Palestinian work or scenes. Also I dont discount that hip hop (technically an EDMC) has become popular among populations of youth in Islamic countries and communities. This is a related yet separate area which I know has and continues to be the subject of research in various places globally. Graham At 8:56 AM -0800 2/10/10, > ! < wrote: >From what I know through the Upgrade International network of media arts, >there's raves all over Turkey, and a huge media arts scene there as well, >with plenty of action in Istanbul: > > http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade/ > http://www.nomad-tv.net/ > >Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim >populations... > >The question would need opening up. Do you mean to find raves in >specifically Muslim countries -- ie in places where such events would appear >(to us Westerners) to be heretic to national culture and law -- ? Ie, say >Iran. Or Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, etc. > >Or is the point to search out "Muslim raves" along the same lines that one >would search out explicitly religious "Christian raves" (a la Robin Sylvan)? > >Or by the fact that there are Muslims in attendance does it make the rave >inherently Muslim? If so, then the Israeli trance scene be all "Jewish >raves"? > >Ie, the different shades of Muslim need to be divested, in relation to >geography, diaspora, nation, religion, culture... > >Definitely a fruitful avenue of research. Of course, theoretically charted >out by Hakim Bey from the get-go... the TAZ is rooted in heretic Sufi... I >wonder if there's a translation in Farsi... or Arabic... > >best/ t. > > > > >> Just a quick question - I'm wondering if anyone knows about the >> existence of anything that might approximate "raves" among Muslim >> youth in any part of the globe? And if there might be any research / >> documentation available? >> >> Thanks >> >> Grraham >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dancecult-l mailing list >> Dancecult-l at listcultures.org >> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org >> No commercial use without permission >> www.dancecult.net > > >. >. >tobias c. van Veen -----------++++ ! >http://www.quadrantcrossing.org -- >McGill Communication & Philosophy >resistance . through . rhythm . >||||||||||||||||||| >|||||||||||||| >||||||||||||||||||| >||||||||||||||||||||| >|||||||||||| From bodywerk at hotmail.com Sun Feb 14 21:38:21 2010 From: bodywerk at hotmail.com (Beata Beatrix) Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:38:21 +0000 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Hi again, evidence seems a little far away as these communities have to be a little bit to be hidden to survive... such as in thailand, as it looks like raving is a little bi more free -as they are budhists; but in case of a serious rave party, police is there accusing the participants having been on drugs as lsd or mushroom, etc... as a traveller around asia since last four years, still trying to find out what and how it is goin on... > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:08:25 -0800 > To: gonzo at quadrantcrossing.org; Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > From: g.stjohn at warpmail.net > Subject: Re: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves > > > Those are good questions Tobias, and yes my initial inquiry was > deliberately broad and more to do with establishing the existence of > any research, either published or in process, that might shed some > light on "Muslim raves" whether Muslims are intentionally > appropriating elements of EDMC in the context of "rave" parties to > further Islamicism (as in Christian raves), which is far less likely, > or whether there are rave or rave-like events that transpire within > countries or regions that are predominantly Muslim or have large > Muslim populations (as in the case of the psytrance community Epic > Tribe in Malaysia linked to by Beata or Evan's link to scenes in > Dubai) which is far more likely. There is further evidence of the > latter mentioned to me off list - ie psytrance communities in Iran. > > More generally, my guess is that clubbing (or perhaps "club raves") > is more likely observable among Muslim populations around the world > but which evince tight regulatory structures and ordinance [as we see > for example in China], and /or with significant transient western / > tourist populations (as in Dubai or in parts of Indonesia). And that > "raves" of the kind that might involve DJs , MDMA and other conscious > alterants not including alcohol, although that is itself a > considerable challenge within predominently Muslim societies, and > where we may find spaces for girls and women to dance relatively > unhinderd are very marginal and unpermitted, and probably often > operated by middle class experimentalists and entreprenueres in > collusion with expatriate operators (and wonky police) - and thus > understandably not open to the scrutiny of nosy researchers under the > employ of the state. > > Light shed on what is happening in Israel and Palestinian Territories > (as well as Lebanon) might be helpful here, if for nothing more than > that many Israeli trance events are apparently characterised by a > prejudicial response to Arabs and Arabic sensibilities, ie those not > generally regarded as "beautiful people", and all this despite the > PLUR-like ideologies - I know Joshua Schmidt has been performing > some important work in this regard. > > The way electronic music has been used to sample and amplify elements > of Islam / Sufic tradition is also of interest though, as Wayne > indicates, not strictly to do with "rave" - and thanks to him for > sending that fascinating article on an Egyptian electro-folk sene. > And to Pavel for the interesting electropop example from Tartastan! > Im sure that Turkey would offer many examples, though it would be > interesting to learn of any similar Palestinian work or scenes. > > Also I dont discount that hip hop (technically an EDMC) has become > popular among populations of youth in Islamic countries and > communities. This is a related yet separate area which I know has and > continues to be the subject of research in various places globally. > > > Graham > > > > > At 8:56 AM -0800 2/10/10, > ! < wrote: > >From what I know through the Upgrade International network of media arts, > >there's raves all over Turkey, and a huge media arts scene there as well, > >with plenty of action in Istanbul: > > > > http://www.nomad-tv.net/upgrade/ > > http://www.nomad-tv.net/ > > > >Then there's all of Eastern Europe, which has significant Muslim > >populations... > > > >The question would need opening up. Do you mean to find raves in > >specifically Muslim countries -- ie in places where such events would appear > >(to us Westerners) to be heretic to national culture and law -- ? Ie, say > >Iran. Or Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, etc. > > > >Or is the point to search out "Muslim raves" along the same lines that one > >would search out explicitly religious "Christian raves" (a la Robin Sylvan)? > > > >Or by the fact that there are Muslims in attendance does it make the rave > >inherently Muslim? If so, then the Israeli trance scene be all "Jewish > >raves"? > > > >Ie, the different shades of Muslim need to be divested, in relation to > >geography, diaspora, nation, religion, culture... > > > >Definitely a fruitful avenue of research. Of course, theoretically charted > >out by Hakim Bey from the get-go... the TAZ is rooted in heretic Sufi... I > >wonder if there's a translation in Farsi... or Arabic... > > > >best/ t. > > > > > > > > > >> Just a quick question - I'm wondering if anyone knows about the > >> existence of anything that might approximate "raves" among Muslim > >> youth in any part of the globe? And if there might be any research / > >> documentation available? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Grraham > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Dancecult-l mailing list > >> Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > >> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org > >> No commercial use without permission > >> www.dancecult.net > > > > > >. > >. > >tobias c. van Veen -----------++++ ! > >http://www.quadrantcrossing.org -- > >McGill Communication & Philosophy > >resistance . through . rhythm . > >||||||||||||||||||| > >|||||||||||||| > >||||||||||||||||||| > >||||||||||||||||||||| > >|||||||||||| > > > _______________________________________________ > Dancecult-l mailing list > Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org > No commercial use without permission > www.dancecult.net _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daonnan at gmail.com Sun Feb 14 22:57:04 2010 From: daonnan at gmail.com (+Lamed) Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:57:04 -0500 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves In-Reply-To: References: <8f6b83931002100935o536a53b0n958cda3e5c5ff157@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <18276fb01002141357v35ff9461m2a9bfb8626ac102a@mail.gmail.com> That is what I was gonna say although the penalties for being caught with psychoactive substances in Dubai make me wonder just how rave like the culture can be. agape Leigh On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Evan Martin wrote: > Dubai has EDM scenes including psytrance: > > http://www.psychedelic-traveller.net/United_Arab_Emirates > > > http://www.ravelinks.com/links/raves/middle_east/dubai.htm > > -Evan > > > -- > www.teleomorph.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Dancecult-l mailing list > Dancecult-l at listcultures.org > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org > No commercial use without permission > www.dancecult.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shshalev at smile.net.il Mon Feb 15 09:18:15 2010 From: shshalev at smile.net.il (shuki shalev) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:18:15 +0200 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim Raves Message-ID: <004001caae17$6c973490$45c59db0$@net.il> I know of some in Israel and a bit in the Palestinian territories. The parties have no immediate connection to any of the supposed tenets of EDMC, are hidden from the mainstream and are composed almost exclusively from men who dance in line/circle dances [e.g. the wedding dabke] without pretentions of countercultural self-expressionism. Women, to the extent that they are present, are sidelined and don't really 'go off', so to speak, stay away from the main action but then, at the end of the party, often go away with men to... The drugs are mostly alcohol [a no-no for religious Muslims] and hashish. And to a small degree mdma. Acid is almost non-existent and the few I have asked, seem to say that they don't dig its headspace. The music is often electronic dance beats remixed with Arab music phrasing and vocal samples. This also occurs a bit among the Bedouin youth and recently I was asked to DJ at a local wedding (I live in the desert) but way after the main event had finished and most of the 'guests' had gone home. Normally, Bedouins who want to 'party' in any serious manner, will join already existing secular-Jewish Israeli PEDMC events. If someone wants to get-down in style in an authoritative (Muslim) community, and they have the dough, they most likely have their fun - which would certainly include some form of EDM - in private, away from the prying gaze of the public eye. This happens quite frequently in Israel among the Arabs/Bedouin and (Jewish)ultra-Orthodox populations. - btw- during the second intifada, there was a 'rave for peace' in Tel-Aviv, Israel in about 2002 which was mildly successful - 2k ppl showed up. But more interesting: when Israel decided to pull out of Gaza in 2005, a group of orthodox right wing youth attempted to stage a 'rave against the expulsion' to try and garner support against this move in predominantly secular Tel-Aviv. Only a few score ppl turned up and needless to say, the idea didn't work out. Nonetheless, trance has so thoroughly penetrated the Israel's socio-cultural fabric that it is employed to various aims by both secular [left wing] and orthodox [right wing] enthusiasts, and apparently, when they're feeling naughty, by some of the Arab populations as well. -Shuki -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 9998 bytes Desc: not available URL: From gonzo at quadrantcrossing.org Tue Feb 16 19:30:04 2010 From: gonzo at quadrantcrossing.org (> ! <) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:30:04 -0800 Subject: [Dancecult-l] --> HOT TYPE II @ W2 Media - OLYMPIC TWEET REMIX PARTY / Vancouver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: don't mean to spam this list, but this is a different kind of event where you can get involved wherever you are by tweeting ... thought some D/C members might be interested. Olympics, technology arts, social media, critique, MCing, VJing & DJing converge -- checkkit. best/ tobias. --> HOT TYPE II ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Remixing heritage letterpress print tradition with social media & electronic performance arts! ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? LIVE Performance typesetting with MCs mixing twitter-length lyrics freshly typeset by the audience on the W2 Woodward?s letterpress. Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 9:00pm In Vancouver: W2 Culture + Media House, 112 W. Hastings St. $10 at the door / Participate to & win Prints + CDs + Buttons TWEETS --> PRINTS --> RHYMES --> REMIX Hot Type II seeks tweets from around the world on the Q: --> "What do YOU think of the 2010 Winter Olympics?? Mark your tweets with these hashtags ---> #HT2 #van2010 <--- We will print up your tweets & post pics of the prints to the Net. VJs will remix the tweet live while MCs rhyme the tweets into their flow. SEND TWEETS TO : @W2LETTERPRESS http://twitter.com/w2letterpress WATCH LIVE http://w2.tv LETTERPRESS BE US http://www.creativetechnology.org/group/w2letterpressstudio // RHYMES // MC MIKE SHEEHAN (Victoria) Mike Sheehan is an artist and educator specializing in large group facilitation and youth engagement. For the past 14 years he has been designing and delivering a variety of educational programs for both youth and adults. His work is sought out by communities, conferences, schools, alternative education centres, Native Friendship Centres, youth detention centres, government, corporations and NGOs. Mike is known for creating meaningful and inclusive learning environments with a surprising level of engagement and energy. http://www.beatboard.org/ NDIDI CASCADE Ndidi Cascade has shared the same stage as talents such as Femi Kuti, De La Soul, Abstract Rude, Michael Franti, Kelis, K-OS & Michie Mee, and has performed at numerous events such as the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Canadian Music Week, the Vancouver and Victoria Folk Festivals & Honey Jam. Ndidi Cascade, a woman of Nigerian, Italian and Irish descent, has been captivating audiences across with her lyrical insight and tight flow as both a solo artist alongside her talented singing partner Deanna, and as part of the Third Eye Tribe collective. http://www.myspace.com/ndidicascadedeanna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnZklHihcgA (Third Eye Tribe ft. Ndidi Cascade) // SOUND // TOBIAS.DJ (Whistler/Montreal) Hailing from the West Coast technoculture, tobias has DJ'ed warehouse raves to logging road occupations, art galleries to festivals, from Montreal to Amsterdam, Barcelona to Berlin. From dubhouse to deep techno, electro to minimal, tobias plays with a unique sonic signature crafted from over 15 years of DJing hedonist gatherings worldwide. Now in Whistler, tobias has introduced a minimalist sound to Diversity Festival, WinterPRIDE and Bass Coast Project. His DJ mixes can be found at [http://controltochaos.ca] & blog at [ http://fugitive.quadrantcrossing.org/ ]. DJ REVISE (Vancouver / re:create records) A collage artist and sculptor in a former life, electronic music artist Revise melds and shapes different genres and sound sources into his own art form. Imagine if Amon Tobin and Prefuse 73 got together to remix Boards of Canada, with DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist looking on as producers. Palettes to Burn, his debut album, showcases the variety of colours and concepts of this meticulous producer and DJ. Revise returns once again to W2 Perel Gallery for the second Hot Type action in a row. http://www.myspace.com/djrevise His cd release party for Palettes to Burn is on March 5th at the Shark Club, with guests Adaline and Calamalka http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=301824807535&ref=ts Listen to the album's precursor EP Don't Look Down http://www.last.fm/music/djrevise/Don%27t+Look+Down+EP // TIMELINE // 9-10pm. Doors Open; music & drinks, introduction to printmaking 10-11pm. 'Hot Type Takes Off' / DJ Revise on the decks. 11-2am. 'Broadcasting to the World' / tobias.dj on the decks. // PHOTOS // Fresh Hot Type! (2009) Audience generated prints http://www.creativetechnology.org/xn/detail/2128459:Album:20157 Video - Live Performance Typesetting http://www.creativetechnology.org/xn/detail/2128459:Video:20209 . . . . tobias c. van Veen . renegade theorist & pirate turntablist http://fugitive.quadrantcrossing.org http://controltochaos.ca resistance . through . rhythm . . . . From amj.whelan at gmail.com Thu Feb 18 06:16:40 2010 From: amj.whelan at gmail.com (Andrew Whelan) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:16:40 +1100 Subject: [Dancecult-l] CFP: "Revise: The Art and Science of Contemporary Remix Culture" 2-3 December 2010 Message-ID: Dancecult folks, sorry for cross-posting, and please do distribute as appropriate: Call for Papers Revise: The Art and Science of Contemporary Remix Culture Dec 2-3, 2010 University of Wollongong , Wollongong, Australia In a media saturated environment, questions about authoriality and the ownership of cultural content have come to be increasingly urgent. A number of recent, high profile legal cases have highlighted the difficulties involved in adjudicating between different models of ownership and of cultural production. Furthermore, online environments render local, fannish, and 'amateur' forms of cultural production (frequently drawing on 'Big Content') increasingly visible - sometimes to the apparent detriment of these forms of vernacular creativity. Across audio, televisual, cinematic, textual, and other forms, proprietary models of cultural production face challenges in managing, controlling, and monetising content tailored for a mass audience. It is paradoxical that a measure of success for such content is the extent to which it is - often almost immediately - adapted and re-used by vernacular cultures. Conversely, interventions by fans and other niche cultural producers are often understood on the one hand to be forms of innovative appropriation and interventions in the flow of cultural goods, and on the other to be products of unpaid labour, raising the value of material that is already ubiquitous in an attention economy sense. This event aims to bring together researchers whose work investigates aspects of remixing, alongside practitioners working in remix cultures, for an interdisciplinary and collaborative conference. We are also soliciting curated art and video works in addition to presentations by remix practitioners and academic papers. Call for papers Abstracts of 200-250 words should be sent to revise2010 at gmail.com by 15 April, 2010. Please include your full name (and/or artist/fan name), email address, and institutional affiliation (if applicable) along with the abstract. In addition to formal academic papers, we also welcome roundtable or panel discussion suggestions, and/or presentations by remix practitioners on their art or style. Curated artwork exhibits and live performance submissions are also welcomed. The following is a list of possible themes, but it by no means exhaustive. * Interrogating the boundaries of remix: when did remix 'start'? What of homage, pastiche, and the cover version? How are the boundaries between reference and appropriation established, and to what ends? * 'Reading' remixes: the semiotics of citation. * Literary allusion and remix in poetry: erasure and found poetry. * The artistic tradition of readymades. * Remix, originality, and creative process. * The ethics of appropriation. * Music remix - plunderphonics, DJ culture, hip-hop, electronic dance music: sampling cultures and aesthetics. * Intertextuality and ekphrasis: elements of one medium surfacing in another. * Remix offline and on: from dancefloors to netlabels and YouTube; remix and the networked archive. * Remixing in time: repetition and variation of source material; remix and the reconstitution of the past. * Histories of remix. * Fanfiction, slash and textual innovation. * Video: fan vidding, trailer mashups, anime music videos, machinima. * Remix and 'the canon': from JXL's A Little Less Conversation to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. * Open source as remix. * Visual art - digital media remix art, appropriation, combining existing content. * Practices of appropriation and engagement with copyright, fair use and other intellectual property doctrines. * The aesthetics and interactions of remix communities of practice. * Remix economics and anti-economics. * The role of industry in remix. For more information, please email revise2010 at gmail.com or see http://revise2010.blogspot.com . From jamje at cox.net Sat Feb 27 00:05:31 2010 From: jamje at cox.net (James E) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:05:31 -0500 Subject: [Dancecult-l] Muslim raves Message-ID: <3EE6C5D4C6F845E1992CB8D168915705@JAMMIN> FYI from today's NY Times. This made my day. "There are bomb blasts all around, but people don't stay away," said a 36-year-old bank teller named Najibullah. "When the celebration comes, people have to dance." James E February 25, 2010 Mystical Form of Islam Suits Sufis in Pakistan By SABRINA TAVERNISE LAHORE, Pakistan - For those who think Pakistan is all hard-liners, all the time, three activities at an annual festival here may come as a surprise. Thousands of Muslim worshipers paid tribute to the patron saint of this eastern Pakistani city this month by dancing, drumming and smoking pot. It is not an image one ordinarily associates with Pakistan, a country whose tormented western border region dominates the news. But it is an important part of how Islam is practiced here, a tradition that goes back a thousand years to Islam's roots in South Asia. It is Sufism, a mystical form of Islam brought into South Asia by wandering thinkers who spread the religion east from the Arabian Peninsula. They carried a message of equality that was deeply appealing to indigenous societies riven by caste and poverty. To this day, Sufi shrines stand out in Islam for allowing women free access. In modern times, Pakistan's Sufis have been challenged by a stricter form of Islam that dominates in Saudi Arabia. That orthodox, often political Islam was encouraged in Pakistan in the 1980s by the American-supported dictator, Muhammad Zia ul-Haq. Since then, the fundamentalists' aggressive stance has tended to eclipse that of their moderate kin, whose shrines and processions have become targets in the war here. But if last week's stomping, twirling, singing, drumming kaleidoscope of a crowd is any indication, Sufism still has a powerful appeal. "There are bomb blasts all around, but people don't stay away," said a 36-year-old bank teller named Najibullah. "When the celebration comes, people have to dance." Worshipers had come from all over Pakistan to commemorate the death of the saint, Ali bin Usman al-Hajveri, an 11th-century mystic. Known here today as Data Ganj Baksh, or Giver of Treasures, the Persian-speaking mystic journeyed to Lahore with Central Asian invaders, according to Raza Ahmed Rumi, a Pakistani writer and expert on Sufism. He settled outside the city, a stopover on the trade route to Delhi, started a meditation center and wrote a manual on Sufi practices, Mr. Rumi said. Few here last week knew many of those facts but that did not seem to matter. The dancing and drumming was part of a natural rhythm of life that after nearly 10 centuries was as much about culture as it was about faith. "It's a festival of happiness!" shouted a cook, Muhamed Nadim, over the din, when asked what was being celebrated. "People feel comfort here." Vast crowds of men walked barefoot, pushing past police barricades and vendors selling fabrics and sweets. A neon sign advertising chicken with the words "Chicks, Chicks, Chicks" glowed in a second-floor window. Underneath it, brightly lit bookstores remained open, their owners gazing out at the crowds. One of them, Naeem Ashraf Rizvi, settled easily into a conversation with a foreigner about life in Pakistan. The overwhelming majority of Pakistanis are Sufi, he explained, and despise violence inflicted by the more hard-line Deobandis, the school of thought that was supported by General Zia. Last year was Pakistan's worst for militant attacks since 2001, with the death toll more than triple what it was in 2006. "Sufis have not spread terrorism," Mr. Rizvi said, his small daughter on his lap. "We are its victims." The violence, he said, has damaged not only Pakistan, but also the reputation of Muslims, who he said "are seen with suspicious gazes everywhere in the world." He added, "We are condemning the violence, but no one is listening to us." For all of Mr. Rizvi's enlightened views, his opinion veered back in a grimly familiar direction on the question of who was responsible for the attacks. It was a list of culprits most Pakistanis recite by heart: the United States, India and Britain. Outsiders are often at the center of Pakistan's many conspiracy theories, a kind of defense mechanism that serves as a way to avoid a reality too painful to confront. Worse than the violence, Mr. Rizvi said, was the weakness of the government, which seemed unable to accomplish much of anything. Nor was a military takeover the answer. The only solution, he said, was a revolution by the people, like the one in Iran in 1979. But in Pakistan, where illiteracy is rampant and leaders are more focused on jockeying for power than fulfilling a political vision, that is a distant wish. "Everyone is quiet," he said. "They are not listening yet. They are sleeping." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: