Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa 1st Edition

The book appeared at a pivotal period in my life. Reading the book numerous times inspired me to make a life style change which involved abandoning the pursuit of the "American Dream". The book is well documented and delight to read even though it is an academic work. For those in search of "Sunrise" (Tiesto) this book is for you. The spirit of counter culture continues to thrive. My favorite quote: "We left Cafe Del Mar and drove north..."

A challenging and difficult introduction yields to a wonderfully adept description of the island I have come to love. Well observed.

The first thing I have to say about this brilliant book is: PUBLISHER! come out with an inexpensive paperback edition!! This book is of wide interest to travelers, students of cosmopolitan culture, and reads like a travelogue. The publisher has priced it as an academic textbook of interest only to libraries. That is insane.This book is of strong interest to hippies, club kids, neo-hippies, followers of Burning Man, festival freaks, psychedelic people, world travelers, students of counterculture history, and electronic music lovers/producers/DJ's. It is rich with stories of modern India and Spain, Goa, Pune and Ibiza, and the role these places play in the modern global nomadic counterculture. It is a fascinating study of world countercultures, and how the hippies of the sixties became transformed into the ravers of the nineties and the freaks of the new millennium.It is also an inspiring travelogue for present and aspiring expatriates, and other global nomads, who see the road as a home instead of a way of getting somewhere. I just also finished reading Tim Ferris' "4 Hour Workweek", and see strong connections between the two books. Both books are about people who use their imagination to transform their lives and challenge the conventional, sedentary existence that most people live.For at least the next three decades the major changes happening in the world will be occurring on the transnational front. People who embrace lives of hypermobility will be best poised to experience and facilitate this. This applies to people who do not consider themselves counterculture types.Though this book is about the "expressive counterculture", d'Andreas makes a strong case that global capitalism and the counterculture are caught in a constant dialectic struggle. The freaks, no matter how hard they try to avoid it, become the avant-garde of global capitalism and tourism. They have become the risk-taking scouts for big corporations. Anyone interested in mainstream global capitalism will benefit from this detailed work.Publisher: make this book affordable!!

I agree with the earlier reader, this book should be put into an affordablechannel of publication -- as it has a potential wide readership beyond academia.Its an anthropology book, but the dry cover should not be a turn off,because Anthony D'Andrea knows how to write, and does not let his'objectivity' lens get in the way of; human readable/humaninterest and clear powers of description of landscapes, scenes andpersons.A fascinating book for anyone who has wondered about the seminalaspects of Techno, expat realities or how such scenes as Ibiza and Goadeveloped. Again the book isn't limited to Ibiza and Goa in manyaspects its as much about the US, UK, Israel, Western Europe,industrialized/urban Latin America - the principle points of departurewhere the bulk of Mediterranean/Asian bound neo-nomads discussed in the book originate.I rented the title on Kindle, after reading the Kindle sample/intro, but landed up seeking out a used copy for the shelf.

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