Overview

Psychedelic music is a fascinating yet under-researched field of study. This thought-provoking collection offers a broad introduction to the field of psychedelic music studies, bringing together scholarly work on psychedelic music in genres like rock, folk, electronic dance music and pop. Through an expanded purview on psychedelic music, an emerging trend in research, the collection affords students and academics alike an introduction to a rich, multi-faceted field. The contributing authors explore a range of different facets of musical psychedelia: its transgressive and transcendent aspects, its foregrounding of timbre and texture, the way it changes our perception of time, its influence on “non-psychedelic” music, key composition and production techniques that composers and musicians use in its creation, how it is mediated by different places and spaces, and the interplay between psychedelic visual and sonic aesthetics. This interdisciplinary work reveals both commonalities in musical psychedelic experiences and the contestation inherent in a field of study that juxtaposes music of different genres and eras with a variety of theoretical approaches and methodologies. In broadening the scope of psychedelic music research, the collection not only makes for varied and absorbing reading on the subject level but also stimulates reflexive thought about interdisciplinary research.

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Author:   Gemma L. Farrell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032047133

ISBN 10:   1032047135
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   31 July 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction GEMMA L. FARRELL PART I 1. A Splendid Time is Guaranteed for All: The Recreation of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album on Stage ANTHONY MEYNELL AND ALAIN PIRE 2. A New Kind of Blue: Connections between Early West Coast Psychedelic Music and Jazz (1963-68) TOM ZLABINGER 3. From Soul to Psychedelic Soul and Beyond: Sonic Experience and Sound configuration GUILLAUME DUPETIT 4. DJ’s skills and psychedelic trance’s rules: Temporalities of the psychedelic experience in European electronic dance music AURÉLIEN DJEBBARI AND ELINA DJEBBARI 5. Psychedelic spheres: sonic spaces and party places in psytrance GEMMA L. FARRELL PART II 6. Rings around the world: The psychedelic ripple effect in a global set and setting NEIL BURNS 7. Psychedelia, Occulture and the Dark Rock-n-Rave Crossover DANIEL SIEPMANN 8. Transcendental Psychedelia: hearing hearing in the work of Maryanne Amacher WILL SCHRIMSHAW 9. Ecstatic-Materialist Sound: A Cross-Genre Aesthetic in Today’s Experimental Music RICCARDO D. WANKE PART III 10. Journeys Around the Secret Place KRISZTIÁN HOFSTÄDTER 11. Because the Night Belongs to Sex, ‘Drugs’ and Rock 'n' Roll: The Nocturnal Integration of Promiscuity, Psychoactive Substance-Seeking and Musicality in Human Evolution Marco Antonio Correa Varella and Jaroslava Varella Valentova 12. Spirituality, Substance Use and Transformation in Electronic Dance Music Culture: Results from a Quantitative Study THOMAS J. JOHNSON, DANIELLE D. WEISMAN, VIRGIL L. SHEETS, BRIANNA TODD & CODY LESNIAK. Index

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Gemma L. Farrell, PhD, is an Associate Researcher in the Music Department at the University of Sussex, UK, and author of Psychedelic Style and Embodiment in Psytrance (PhD thesis, 2019).

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