Goa: 20 Years of Psychedelic Trance (Tom Rom and Pascal Querner)
2015; Griffith University; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.12801/1947-5403.2015.07.01.07
ISSN1947-5403
Autores Tópico(s)Psychedelics and Drug Studies
ResumoA few years ago I was in Thailand to give a talk at a conference in Bangkok on the "post-Zionist performance of Israeliness" among Israeli psytrancers in Thailand.I had the pleasure of meeting Robert A. Leonard, an American professor of forensic linguistics, who turned out to be an old friend of my doctoral advisor as well as a founding member and bassist of Sha Na Na, the rock and roll doo-wop group who (wearing satin gold sweat suits) opened for Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.When I asked Leonard "how does it feel when you're making history?", he responded that when people "make history", they are usually too busy doing it to fully notice the magnitude of what they are achieving.Afterwards, what one recalls often overlaps and gets filtered through the authorized account of the event.This notion came to mind after reading Goa: 20 Years of Psychedelic Trance.This coffee table book, elegantly published and stylishly edited, ventures to capture and convey the romance and excitement that accompanied the expansions of Goa psytrance music and culture in the past few decades.Goa is an engaging book, lavished with original artwork and vivid photography depicting psychedelic trance events from across the globe and offering readers a portrayal of life in full HD.The forty-two chapters, over 500 color photos and a companion DVD featuring an "unreleased" montage of Goa music and parties provide a well-informed account of the phenomenal Goa psychedelic trance social movement from its early days in Goa to its (r)evolutionary proliferation "right across the planet, going through every culture and social class as well as every spiritual, religious, political, sexual, musical, philosophical and economic orientation"(14).The period indicated in the sub-title does not refer to specific dates or precise events, nor does it entirely account for 'the story of psytrance' .Rather, during these two decades, the Goa movement underwent a process of formalization Reviews
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