Going the distance: locating journey, liminality and rites of passage in dance music experiences
Author
Jaimangal-Jones, Dewi
Pritchard, Annette
Morgan, Nigel
Date
2010Type
Article
Publisher
Routledge
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‘Dance culture’ is the term now used to describe a large number of connected,
inter-related and overlapping music scenes that have emerged from the warehouse, acid house and rave scenes, and are characterised by electronic music, dancing and the consumption of illicit drugs. This paper examines the construction and consumption of these dance music spaces and experiences. The
study adopted a reflexive anthropological methodological package, including
participant observation, field trips, interviews and focus groups. It argues that
discourses of liminality and rites of passage frame the spatial construction of
contemporary large dance music festivals and that travelling to these peculiar
configurations of open, closed and negotiable abstracted spaces is both an act of journey and pilgrimage.
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Leisure Studies
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Jaimangal-Jones, Dewi , Pritchard, Annette and Morgan, Nigel (2010) 'Going the distance: locating journey, liminality and rites of passage in dance music experiences', Leisure Studies, 29: 3, pp. 253-268
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