Author : Paul Eldridge
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780990200
As a DJ, the club/party scene showed Paul a world he thought only the rich and famous could taste. But that seductive, drug-induced scene took him to the very edge. Visiting the mystical island of Bali he found a tribal community, offering Paul a way. Severing the lifestyle he loved and cherished was only the beginning: severing the pain of the past was a journey to the brink - and beyond.
Author : Paul B. Preciado
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1558618384
This visionary book on gender and sexuality weaves together high theory and intimate memoir, with "spectacular" results—"and the gendered body will never be the same again" (Jack Halberstam). What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny. In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado's diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.
Author : Simon Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136783164
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.
Author : Mireille Silcott
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 1999
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 1550223836
Through hundreds of interviews with DJ's, recording artists, producers, promoters, drug lords, club celbrities, and nightworld casualties, this book takes readers into the deepest recesses of the electronic dance culture, uncovering secrets and stories never before seen inprints. Starting with club culture in the 70s and 80s the book inlcudes such greats as DJ Frankie Bones, the acid fuelled dreams of SF's Full Moon beach parties, Florida's DJ Icey, right up to the twelve hour post-aids muscle raves of the cross coutnry gay circuit parties.
Author : Lynne Hume
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000189872
As Alice in Wonderland discovered, cave entrances, tunnels, spirals and mirrors can transport people to strange worlds where anything is possible. Portals investigates how we move beyond the conscious and physical world using our senses, into other realities of the spiritual and the divine. Portals looks at the techniques used to alter consciousness practised by shamans, monks and other religious specialists. These include the use of drugs, as well as drumming, chanting and meditation. The book provides a new, anthropologically-grounded perspective on the wide-ranging questions about the realities of human consciousness and mystical, spiritual and religious experience.
Author : MarkJ. Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351568531
Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the past four decades. This volume presents the rich array of scholarship that has sprung up in response. Cutting-edge perspectives from a broad range of academic disciplines reveal the complex questions provoked by this musical tradition. Issues considered include aesthetics; agency; 'the body' in dance, movement, and space; composition; identity (including gender, sexuality, race, and other constructs); musical design; place; pleasure; policing and moral panics; production techniques such as sampling; spirituality and religion; sub-cultural affiliations and distinctions; and technology. The essays are contributed by an international group of scholars and cover a geographically and culturally diverse array of musical scenes.
Author : Shayne Lee
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761852298
This book steers black sexual politics toward a more sex-positive trajectory, navigating the uncharted spaces where social constructionism, third-wave feminism, and black popular culture collide to locate a new site for sexuality studies that is theoretically innovative, politically subversive, and stylistically chic.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 1993-01-18
Category :
ISBN :
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author : Jerome Beck
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1994-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791496090
The authors have produced the first "on the ground" study (not just clinical or chemical) of MDMA (3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), or "ecstasy" as it is frequently designated. A psychoactive substance related to both the amphetamines and mescaline, MDMA has become popular in recent years as one of the new "designer" drugs. First used in therapeutic treatment, its recreational or street use has increased in recent years. The authors track the efforts (with psychiatrists and researchers in opposition) of the DEA to ban the drug.
Author : Eric Olsen
Publisher :
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN :
Hundreds of producers of pop music are listed in this resource featuring profiles and interviews by writers and editors of Billboard magazine, the most informed voices in the music business.
