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Informationen zum Autor Matthew Collin is the author of the critically-acclaimed books Altered State , This is Serbia Calling , The Time of the Rebels and Pop Grenade . He has worked as a correspondent for the BBC and Al Jazeera, and as the editor of The Big Issue , i-D magazine and the Time Out website. He has also written for many newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian , Observer , Wall Street Journal , The Face , Mixmag and Mojo . He is now researching a new book for Serpent's Tail about electronic dance music culture around the world. Klappentext From its first publication in 1997, ALTERED STATE established itself as the definitive text on dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin revisit many of his interviewees from the original book, with hindsight casting a fresh eye on the heady events of the second summer of love. ALTERED STATE re-examines the causes and contexts, ideologies and myths of Ecstasy culture, dramatising its euphoric narrative from peak experience to come down and aftermath, and shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as MDMA became a mass-market narcotic. Altered State is the best-selling book on Ecstasy culture, using a cast of memorable characters to track the origins of the scene and its drug through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos and the Balearic paradise of Ibiza, to the point where Tony Blair was using an Ecstasy anthem as an election campaign song. Altered State critically examines the ideologies and myths of the scene, documenting the criminal underside to the blissed-out image, shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the twentieth century....
