(En)countering the beat: Paradox in israeli psytrance

The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 131-148

  Schmidt, Joshua I ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203847879     Document Type: Chapter

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