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"Techno-communitas": Transformation of the Freetekno phenomenon from the perspective of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Beaufort, Martin ; Heřmanský, Martin (advisor) ; Jurková, Zuzana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to provide a social anthropological analysis and interpretation of the freetekno party phenomenon in the Czech Republic from synchronic and diachronic perspective. The author bases his argument on both his own field research and professional literature on the topic. An extended case method serves as a basic methodological Framework. After introduction of selected theoretical concepts (music scene, neotribes, youth subculture, rites de passage, liminality and liminoidity, spontaneous communitas and rhizom) as well as outline of the current state of research in the area of study of the freetekno party phenomenon, there is an empirical part of the thesis which consists of two main parts: the historical-ethnographic and the analytical-interpretative. The first part describes the first rave party in Great Britain, expansion of this phenomenon in continental Europe, its adoption in the Czech Republic and its gradual evolution up to the present. The following part serves as an analytical-interpretation of the above-outlined situation and a subsequent socio-anthropological interpretation. Freetekno scene is described as neotribal rhizom and freetekno events are subsequently conceptualized as unique ritual processes. The transformation of the freetekno phenomenon is then...
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"Techno-communitas": Transformation of the Freetekno phenomenon from the perspective of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Beaufort, Martin ; Heřmanský, Martin (advisor) ; Jurková, Zuzana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to provide a social anthropological analysis and interpretation of the freetekno party phenomenon in the Czech Republic from synchronic and diachronic perspective. The author bases his argument on both his own field research and professional literature on the topic. An extended case method serves as a basic methodological Framework. After introduction of selected theoretical concepts (music scene, neotribes, youth subculture, rites de passage, liminality and liminoidity, spontaneous communitas and rhizom) as well as outline of the current state of research in the area of study of the freetekno party phenomenon, there is an empirical part of the thesis which consists of two main parts: the historical-ethnographic and the analytical-interpretative. The first part describes the first rave party in Great Britain, expansion of this phenomenon in continental Europe, its adoption in the Czech Republic and its gradual evolution up to the present. The following part serves as an analytical-interpretation of the above-outlined situation and a subsequent socio-anthropological interpretation. Freetekno scene is described as neotribal rhizom and freetekno events are subsequently conceptualized as unique ritual processes. The transformation of the freetekno phenomenon is then...
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Freetekno and the commercial technoscene from the point of view of differences among preferred drugs
KLEČACKÁ, Aneta
Freetekno or commercial techno parties are very often linked to opinions that this is the type of party where the connection young people - drug occurs. The theoretical part of the thesis is aimed at explanation of considerable difference between freetekno and commercial techno scene as postmodern subcultures, which are often perceived as a whole, where even the visitors themselves often do not know the difference between both the subcultures or the origin of their symbols. In the second, research part of the thesis I identify which drugs are preferred at freetekno parties and which at the commercial techno scene and what the reasons for using different types of drugs at the described scenes are, from what age, how often and with whom the participants visit the parties, motivation to visiting such events, whether they take psychotropic substances at the party and distribution of drugs at the parties. My work was aimed at collecting information from participants in both the party types, its thorough processing and interpretation that might serve to the public as a key to understanding their specific lifestyle. I would like to inform the public that not all the participants go to the party for a drug, but for music and friends, as it is usual in other music events. With regard to an atypical a nonconformist target group I used the qualitative research method. The research techniques applied are involved observation and semi standardized interview with open questions. The basic research population consists of participants of freetekno parties and commercial techno parties organized in various regions of the Czech Republic. Research questions were set in the thesis target showing that different drugs are taken at both the party types, where hallucinogens and cannabinoids prevail at freetekno while stimulants and ecstasy control commercial parties. Motivation to visiting the parties is also different in both the subcultures: while freedom, liberty and solidarity are characteristics for freetekno, visitors of commercial parties are motivated by music. Motivation to use of drugs is also completely different. Most of the respondents state in their replies that a good party is possible without drugs, but they promptly add that drugs are the things giving a party.
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