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21st Century Trance Cult: Electronic Dance Music Culture as a Form of Possession Trance, and its Role in Replacing the Traditional Roles of Religions Within Western European Popular Youth Culture.

This book chapter explores the relationships between popular music cultures and religion. It discusses popular music electronic dance music culture as exhibiting the typical characteristics of a cult, as being ‘like’ a religion; examines sacred popular cultural definitions of and approaches to religion; and investigates entrancement and entrainment. This research has been disseminated at a plenary presentation at IASPM Conference 2011, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, at which it was commended as a conference highlight by two of those summarizing the conference; by invitation at the Insititute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St. Andrews; also by invitation at Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munchen, Germany; as a keynote at a Royal Musical Association Study Day on Electronic Dance Music, Keele University; by invitation at the conference Field of Dreams: Contemporary Explorations at the Interface, between Religion and Popular Culture, Sarum College, Salisbury; and at the Institute of Musical Research at the conference, The Musical Body: Gesture, Representation and Ergonomics in Musical Performance.