[HacktionLab] Interview with Graham St John on Goa Trance Dance

[Patrice Riemens]

A bit off-topic, but may be not!
x-posted from the hippiesfromhell list.
Cheers, p+5D!


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Subject: [discussion] Link for today
From:    "Patrice Riemens" <patrice at xs4all.nl>
Date:    Wed, September 4, 2013 12:41
To:      discussion at hippiesfromhell.org
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Hiya,

http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1308/msg00035.html

To-day's link needs some 'contextualisation'. And to start with c+p-ing
its content on a text editor, as it turns out as a pack of spaghetti on
the nettime archive site. So you do that first!
;-)

Now, Graham StJohn had written a most interesting book on the Goa trance
dance phenomenon as it started in Goa (India) and then went global.

https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=485

I read only the first 3 chapters, as I was interested in the interaction
with the local Goa social landscape, and less in the music genre itself
(unlike GStJ, I was quite some time in Goa, though not in the 'hippie'
scene, but with get going local activists - often despised by 'GoaHippies'
as 'westernised, middle class, inauthentic' "we prefered the fishermen on
the beach and other simple local folks as friends" -  as I was once told
by a Ruigoord grandee ...)

Geert Lovink, who shared an office room with Graham St John while at
Queensland University, made a very interesting interview. His questions
are sometimes a bit jejune (and he gets trashed for it ;-), but that's
maybe on purpose, since it elicited most interesting answers. Graham St
John broaches on issues which we also know in hacker circles, as came to
the fore around OHM2013. Might be a further illustration how close both
scenes (hackers and ravers) are - often one and the same people.

I hope you enjoy!

Cheerio, p+5D!





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