Guest Editors' Introduction to "Psychedelica and Electronica"

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.01

Author Biographies

Trace Reddell

Trace Reddell (PhD) is a writer, artist and educator. Trace’s first book, The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film (U of Minnesota Press, 2018), offers new ways of construing sonic innovation in science fiction cinema. A forthcoming book, The Magic Circle: Sonic Substance in Psychedelic Music (MIT Press, 2024), develops a theory of sonic psychedelia. Trace is a Professor in the Emergent Digital Practices program at the University of Denver. Website: <https://sonicsciencefiction.com/>

Graham St John

As an anthropologist specialising in transformational events, movements and figures, Graham has authored ten books, including the forthcoming Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (MIT Press, 2025), Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (North Atlantic Books 2015), Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Equinox, 2012), and Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures (Equinox, 2009). He has edited several anthologies, including Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures (Bloomsbury 2017), Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance (Berghahn 2008) and Rave Culture and Religion (Routledge 2004). He has been awarded postdoctoral fellowships in Australia, the US, Canada, Switzerland, and the UK, where he was recently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellow in the Department of Music and Design Arts at the University of Huddersfield, where he is currently a Senior Research Fellow. Graham is founding Executive Editor of Dancecult.

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Published

23-Nov-2023

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2023): Psychedelica and Electronica

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Editorial

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