Psychedelic white : Goa trance and the viscosity of race / Arun Saldanha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saldanha, Arun.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counterculture--India--Anjuna.

Counterculture.

Cultural geography--India--Anjuna.

Cultural geography.

Hallucinogenic drugs--Social aspects--India--Anjuna.

Hallucinogenic drugs.

Tourists--Social networks--India--Anjuna.

Tourists.

Trance (Electronic dance music)--Social aspects--India--Anjuna.

Trance (Electronic dance music).

White people--Race identity--India--Anjuna.

White people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A rich ethnography, Psychedelic White explains how race plays out in Goa's white counterculture and grapples with how to make sense of racism when it is not supposed to be there. Challenging the prevailing conception of racial difference as a purely social construction and offering insights into the global underground music scene, Psychedelic White presents nothing less than a new materialist approach to race.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Ethnography as Thought; 1. Psychedelic Whiteness; 2. What Materialism?; 3. Tripping on India; The Researcher's Body; Viscosity; 4. Goa Freaks; 5. Drugs and Difference; 6. Trance, Dance, and the Trance-Dance; 7. The Psychopathology of Travel; The Trials of Transcendence; 8. Visual Economy; 9. Faces of Goa; 10. Zombie Beach; 11. Sunlight and Judgment; Purity as Machinic Effect; 12. The Politics of Location; 13. Cliques; 14. Noise, Narcotics, Law and Order; 15. Dealing with the Third World; When the Music's Over; 16. A Machinic Geography of Phenotype; 17. Freaking Whiteness

The Molecular RevolutionAppendix: Field/Work; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5429-8

OCLC:

476125795