“What are we doing here?” Nostalgic Desires for a Cosmopolitan Sensory Aesthetic in the Amsterdam-based Psytrance Scene

Abstract

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Keywords

• cultural musicology
• psytrance
• cosmopolitanism
• postcolonialism
• desire
• nostalgia
• psychedelics
• otherness
• ethics
• anti-conquest
• globalization