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Book SynopsisIntroduction; Kristoff Kerl, Detlef Siegfried, Robert P. Stephens, Olaf Stieglitz.- PART I: RESEARCHING POP CULTURES AND STATES OF ECSTASY, EUPHORIA, AND INTOXICATION.- 1. Pop ecstasies: Reflections on ecstatic and euphoric states of the body in the history of pop cultures; Kristoff Kerl.- PART II: SPACES AND ARTEFACTS IN THE CONTEXT OF DOING GENDER.- 2. 'My whole body's sent, I feel like a millionaire': Ecstasies (and agonies) of cannabis intoxication in Jazz-era tea pads, 1930-1950; Robert Beach.- 3. From bare bulbs to liquid light shows: Music club environments in Hamburg-St. Pauli across the 1960s; Julia Sneeringer.- PART III: DOING GENDER BY DOING ECSTASY.- 4. No future whatsoever: Punk as negative ecstasy at the end of the 1970s; Vojin Saša Vukadinovic.- 5. From the terraces to the Thunderdome: Ecstasy and male homosociability in 1990s Britain; Peder Clark.- PART IV: EASTERN SPIRITUALITY FOR WESTERN BODIES.- 6. 'Drifting into uncertainty': World music, 1960-1980; Isabel Richter.- 7. Ecstasy, exercise, excess: New religious bodies between pop cultures and cult controversies, 1970-1990; Florian Schleking.- PART V: ECSTASY. EUPHORIA, AND INTOXICATION IN HOLLYWOOD MOVIES.- 8. A Tunnel at the end of the light: The New Hollywood, white masculinity, and the limits of ecstasy; Olaf Stieglitz.- 9. The Ecstasy and the agony: Hollywood and the construction of mental maps of addiction; Robert P. Stephens.- PART VI: POLITICS OF POP ECSTASIES IN WESTERN EUROPE.- 10. Spanish 'jippies', marijuana, and the creation of a moral Panic under Franco's National Catholicism; Joshua Hill.- 11. Unruly bodies: Punks, ecstasy, and pop culture in Western Germany; Karl Siebengartner.- PART VII: POLITICS OF ECSTASIES IN EASTERN EUROPE.- 12. Ecstasy as prayer and salvation: Soviet hippies and their kaif; Juliane Fürst.- 13. Ecstatic escapism: Heavy metal concerts in East Germany; Nikolai Okunew.
