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Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House

Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House


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From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on dance culture. This second edition includes accounts of the election campaign of Tony Blair which used an Ecstasy anthem as its musical theme, and the trial and acquittal of a 19-year-old for supplying the drug that killed Leah Betts, and her links to East End gangsters. Drawing on a wealth of background research and original interviews with key figures on both sides of the law, Altered State examines the causes and contexts, ideologies and myths of Ecstasy culture, dramatising its euphoric narrative from peak experience to comedown and aftermath, and shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the century.

About the Author :
Matthew Collin has worked as a magazine editor, a foreign correspondent, a broadcast journalist and a features writer. He has been the editor of the Big Issue, the Time Out website and i-D magazine, and has worked in news for the BBC World Service. He has also written for a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer, Independent, Moscow Times, Face and Mojo. His previous books, This is Serbia Calling and Altered State, were also published by Serpent's Tail.

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?At last somebody has written the real history of the last ten years, and written it with such wit, verve, empathy and profound intelligence. If you ve been part of the scene in any way, this brilliant book will serve as positive affirmation. If you haven't, yet still feel moved to pontificate about it, you will no longer have the excuse of doing so from a position of ignorance. I can't recommend this marvellous piece of work enough and in a sane world it would sell more copies than any other book written over the last decade? Irvine Welsh ?The first full history of the dance boom which, fuelled by Ecstasy, has transformed British culture over the past decade: here you will also find the drive to transcendence, or oblivion, that is at the heart of British pop? Jon Savage 'Altered State is not just timely; it was crying out to be written


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781852426040
  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Serpent's Tail
  • Height: 197 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Sub Title: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
  • Width: 130 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1852426047
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 250 gr


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