Description
In Uruguay, Argentina and Chile, "pogo dance" ("el pogo," "poguear") began around the same time in the mid 1970s, and is still found in concerts in this region. In the United States, is is known as "mosh" and is associated with other extended theatrical practices of the rock spectacle such as "stage diving" and "crowd surfing," practices also present in South America. The stage and the mosh pit are well connected through the music, the movement of the audience and in the audience, and the activity of the musicians on stage. "From Ritual and Rock" proposes a reading of "the rock event" that elucidates why the ceremonial and the ritual in it constitute and reveal the cultural; how the political inscribes the global and redefines it; and how the rock conglomerate becomes an aesthetics that feeds and is fed by the literary.
