Call: Photos needed for electronic dance music book

Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:43:02 +0200
From: Graham St John
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Images for Technomad
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Since Berghahn have agreed to reproduce 20 B&W photos in my
forthcoming book with them (Technomad: Global Raving
Countercultures), this is a call out for images. I'm looking for
photos appropriate to the vast territory covered - see the
description below. If you believe you may have a suitable selection
or know someone who might, please get in touch with me or pass this
message on to interested parties.

Photos reproduced in the book will need to be at least 300 dpi B&W
tiffs (with owners supplying an emailed permission). I'm negotiating
for image owners to get a free or discounted copy of the paperback.

Thanks

Graham


Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures.

A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures
forthcoming with Berghahn (2008), Technomad offers a broad yet
detailed exposition of the pleasurable and activist trajectories of
post-rave. The book documents the emergence of a network of
techno-tribes, investigating their pleasure principles and cultural
politics. Attending to sound system culture, electro-humanitarianism,
secret sonic societies, teknivals and other gatherings of the
techno-tribes, intentional parties, revitalisation movements and
counter-colonial interventions, Technomad explores how the dance
party has been harnessed for transgressive and progressive ends, for
manifold freedoms. Seeking freedom from moral prohibitions and
standards, pleasure in rebellion, refuge from sexual and gender
prejudice, exile from oppression, rupturing aesthetic boundaries,
re-enchanting the world, minimising harm, reclaiming space, fighting
for "the right to party", and responding to a host of critical
concerns, electronic dance music cultures are multivalent sites of
resistance.

Drawing on extensive ethnographic, netogaphic and documentary
research, Technomad details the post-rave trajectory through various
local sites and global scenes, with each chapter attending to
important developments in the techno counterculture: e.g. Spiral
Tribe, teknivals, psytrance, Burning Man, Reclaim the Streets.
Significantly, the book offers a nuanced theory of resistance to
assist understanding of these developments. Written in an accessible
style, this cultural history of hitherto uncharted territory will be
of interest to students of cultural, performance, music, media, and
new social movement studies, along with enthusiasts of dance culture
and popular politics.
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