Uma história das festas psytrance no oeste catarinense: nova era e contracultura (2000-2018)

Abstract

The present work aims to study the history of the exclusive parties of the musical style known as Psytrance. The festivities held in the West of Santa Catarina State will be analyzed as part of a wider alternative movement known as New Era. It intends to understand how this musical style and its particular way of experiencing it came to Brazil and to the west of Santa Catarina, where it has become a reference for a significant number of young people living in the region. Interviews were conducted with event-producing Djs to obtain information about how the public of the parties of this electronic music style in the West of Santa Catarina between 2000 and 2018 was formed and expanded. Based on the interviews, we seek to insert the cultural practices of the young residents in the municipalities of Chapecó and Xanxerê in the cultural history of the countercultural practices as these are manifested in the parties of psytrance.