Altered State

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From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture

• Altered State available on August 15 2018 from VitalSource for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">8.32
  
• ISBN bar code 9781847656414 ξ2 registered August 15 2018
  
• ISBN bar code 9781847656414 ξ1 registered September 24 2015
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 9781847656414
  

This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's euphoric escalation into commercial excess as MDMA became a mass-market narcotic. Altered State is the best-selling book on Ecstasy culture, using a cast of memorable characters to track the origins of the scene and its drug through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos and the Balearic paradise of Ibiza, to the point where Tony Blair was using an Ecstasy anthem as an election campaign song. Altered State critically examines the ideologies and myths of the scene, documenting the criminal underside to the blissed-out image, shedding new light on the social history of the most spectacular youth movement of the twentieth century.

^ Matthew Collin (2010). Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House ISBN 9781847656414 (revised Nov 2015)
^ Altered State VitalSource. ISBN 9781847656414 (revised Aug 2018)