Graham St John's Publications
Earth Freq 2008, Australia, Jonathan Carmichael
Books
Global Tribe: Technology, Religion and Psytrance. London: Blackwell. (forthcoming).
2009. Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures. London: Equinox.
Edited Books
2010. (ed) The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance. New York: Routledge (forthcoming).
2008. (ed.) Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance. New York: Berghahn.
2004. (ed.) Rave Culture and Religion. London: Routledge.
2001. (ed.) FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor. Melbourne: Common Ground. (The link is a free ebook download at undergrowth.org)
Chapters in Books
2010. Rave From the Grave: Dark Trance and the Return of the Dead. In Cory James Rushton and Christopher M. Moreman (eds), An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on the Zombie (2 vols). McFarland. (forthcoming).
2010. Psytrance: An Introduction. In Graham St John (ed) The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance. New York: Routledge (forthcoming).
2010. Liminal Culture and Global Movement: The Transitional World of Psytrance. In Graham St John (ed) The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance. New York: Routledge (forthcoming).
2010. Aliens R Us: Space Travel and Gnosis in Global Psytrance. In Adam Possamai (ed) Handbook of Hyper-Real Religions. Brill (forthcoming).
2010. The 2012 Movement, Visionary Arts and Psytrance Culture. In Joseph Gelfer (ed), 2012: Reflections on a Mark in Time. London: Equinox (forthcoming).
2010. Altering Consciousness in Contemporary Culture. In Etzel Cardeña and Michael Winkelman (eds) Altering Consciousness: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Praeger Perspectives (forthcoming).
2010. The Vibe of the Exiles: Aliens, Afropsychedelia and Psytrance. In tobias van Veen (ed), Afrofuturism: Interstellar Transmissions From Remix Culture. Wayne State University Press. (forthcoming).
2008. Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance: An Introduction. In Graham St John (ed) Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance, pp. 1-37. New York: Berghahn. PDF
2008. Trance Tribes and Dance Vibes: Victor Turner and Trance Dance Culture, in Graham St John (ed) Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance, pp. 149-173. New York: Berghahn.
2006. Reclaiming the Future: Going Feral and Becoming Native at Goolengook. In Lynne Hume and Kathleen McPhillips (eds) Popular Spiritualities: The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment, pp. 187-196. Aldershot: Ashgate.
2004. The Difference Engine: Liberation and the Rave Imaginary, pp. 19-45. In Graham St John (ed.) Rave Culture and Religion, London: Routledge.
2004. Techno Millennium: Dance, Ecology and Future Primitives, pp. 213-235. In Graham St John (ed.) Rave Culture and Religion, London: Routledge.
2003. Post-Rave Technotribalism and the Carnival of Protest, pp. 65-82. In David Muggleton and Rupert Weinzierl (eds) The Post-Subcultures Reader. London: Berg.
2001. Doof! Australian Post Rave Culture. In Graham St John (ed.) FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor, pp. 9-36. Melbourne: Common Ground.
2001. Techno Terra-ism: Feral Systems and Sound Futures. In Graham St John (ed.) FreeNRG: Notes From the Edge of the Dance Floor, pp. 109-137. Melbourne: Common Ground.
2000. ConFest: Edgecentral and the Feraliens. In Alan Dearling and M Hanley (eds). Alternative Australia: Celebrating Cultural Diversity, pp. 83-88. Enabler Publications.
Refereed Articles
2009. Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 1(1): 35-64. PDF
2008. Protestival: Global Days of Action and Carnivalized Politics in the Present. Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest. 7(2): 167-190. PDF
2006. Electronic Dance Music Culture and Religion: An Overview. Culture and Religion. 7(1):1-26. PDF
2005. Outback Vibes: Sound Systems on the Road to Legitimacy. Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy, 8(3): 321-336. PDF
2005. Off Road Show: Techno, Protest and ‘Feral Theatre'. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 19(1): 7-22. PDF
2004. Counter Tribes, Global Protests and Carnivals of Reclamation. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 16(4): 421-428.
2001. Australian (Alter)natives: Cultural Drama and Indigeneity. Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, 45(1): 122-140. PDF
2001. Alternative Cultural Heterotopia and the Liminoid Body: Beyond Turner at ConFest. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 12(1): 47-66. PDF
2001. 'Heal thy Self - thy Planet': ConFest, Eco-Spirituality and the Self/Earth Nexus. Australian Religion Studies Review, 14 (1): 97-112.
2001. The Battle of the Bands: ConFest Musics and the Politics of Authenticity. Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, 5(2): 69-90. PDF
2000. Ferals: Terra-ism and Radical Ecologism in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 64: 208-216.
1999. Ferality: A Life of Grime. The UTS Review - Cultural Studies and New Writing, 5(2): 101-13.
1997. Going Feral: Authentica on the Edge of Australian Culture. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 8(2): 167-189. PDF
Special Editions
2006 Culture and Religion 7(1). Special Edition, Electronic Dance Music Culture and Religion.
Reference Books
Entries entitled: Australia , Landscape and Religion (overview) (3000 words); Ferality (1000 words); Raves, Spirituality and Nature (1500 words); Keepers of Lake Eyre (750 words); in B. Taylor, and J. Kaplan (eds) The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. (2005) Continuum Publications.
Reviews
2009. ‘Subcultures?’ Ken Gelder’s Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice. Routledge, London and New York, 2007. In Cultural Studies Review, 15(1): 217-20.
2005. Tim Lawrence’s Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2003, in Media International Australia 117: 160-161.
2001. John Patterson's People of the Land: A Pacific Philosophy, Dunmoore Press, in Worldviews : Environment, Culture, Religion (2001) 5(2): 242-44.
Dancing in the Realm. In Rak Razam and Tim Parish (eds), The Journeybook: Travels on the Frontiers of Consciousness. Melbourne: Undergrowth Inc, pp. 9-14 (2008).
The Gathering of the Trance Tribes: Surfing the Novelty Wave at Boom. The Boom Book. Good Mood Productions (January 2008).
Burning Time: Begoggled in the Mega-Vibe @ Burning Man. Undergrowth.net (November 2007).
Dionysus Now: The Island of Fire and the Immortal Present. Undergrowth.net (July 2007).
Dancing in the Realm: Life, Fusion, Boom Festivals. Undergrowth.net (September 2006).
Soulclipse: Chasing the Progression. Undergrowth.net (April 2006).
Land of the Long White Sock. In Undergrowth Magazine Issue 2: Terra Poetica (2004).
Global "Protestival": Reclaiming the Streets and the Future. M/C Reviews ‘Objection or Obstruction: The Culture of Protest in the 21st Century' (November 2004).
Earthdreaming for a Nuclear Free Future. Arena Magazine (2001) 53, pp. 41-44.
The Story of ConFest. Green Connections (1998/99), 21, pp. 24-5.
Virtual PhD Thesis
Alternative Cultural Heterotopia: ConFest as Australia 's Marginal Centre