Liminal culture and global movement: The transitional world of psytrance

The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 220-246

  St John, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203847879     Document Type: Chapter

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