Ever since my first rave experience I have never truly understood raves. I am interested in searching and learning more about rave culture.
Research on rave culture is difficult because it is a very current issue. Therefore, library books and encyclopedias could not help me much. I started my research on databases because they contain primarily magazine articles. Since raves has recently become more popular I was successful in finding a variety of articles. I found articles from major magazines such as Entertainment Weekly, U.S. News and World Report, Newsweek, Time, Maclean's, Rolling Stone, Newsday, and The University Wire. After finding these articles on databases, I realized how lucky I am to have access to them so easily. I would never be able to find information as resent and informative form any other source. I took portions of the articles that I believed to be important and pasted the portions to electronic note cards. The note cards helped to organize my information and saved valuable research time that I would have used to take notes my hand. After I finished searching the databases I moved on to the web. .
The web was more difficult because most information was either irrelevant or not accurate. The Internet frustrated me so after a couple of hours I terminated my Internet search and that the articles found on the databases where as thorough as I was going to get. Even though I knew I was not going to find many books on rave culture I still went to the library to check out some general books on music. These books helped give me a better understanding of music history and the development of techno music. .
Over the last 10-15 years, a new trend of parties has been evolving. These gatherings are known in the media as raves, and are often simply called parties by those attending them. A rave is an all night event where usually young people gather in a social atmosphere while listening to hypnotic dance music.
Rave Culture What is a Rave? ... The first trace of Rave Culture goes ad far back as Native American's. ... Rave Culture has pulled energy from many different directions. ... As you can see drugs has not been mentioned, showing that the early rave scene was spreading with people loving the culture and not for the access of drugs. ... It is not an "all-the-time" culture. ...
When it comes to the topic of Rave culture, most of us will readily agree that majority of people who attend these events are on drugs. ... Rave culture has been negatively portrayed within the media because the rave scene has the reputation of being a drug scene. ... " Sadly, like Adichie's roommate, those who have not been properly educated on rave culture view raves with a closed mind, and they only see what has been shown through the media. ... Since the beginning of rave culture there has been lots of controversy on the legality of what goes on in the rave scene. ... These days,...
RAVE CULTURE This essay will explain rave culture. The reason that I chose to research and write on this topic is that I am involved with rave scene and enjoy going to "raves." From researching this topic I discovered that rave culture displays many of life's simple pleasures, such as dancing. ... Dancing has and always will be a part of many human societies and culture. ... Many societies throughout the ages incorporated dancing into all parts of there culture, and most importantly, into there spiritual life. ...
Background Name of culture, country: Our project is on a sub-culture group called Ravers. ... Technology: When it comes to technology, the music aspect is a major part in the rave culture. ... Clothing Practices Type of clothing (men, women, children): Only men and women are involved in the rave culture, not children. ... People wear bright clothing because they are part of the rave culture. ... Adornment, modesty/immodesty, protection: Adornment theory plays a major role in the rave culture, specifically external adornment. ...
One of the key factors that has played a part in this transformation of younger generations and society is "Rave culture.... But with the case of the "Rave culture" in the UK we can observe the absolutely opposite situation, where there are serious consequences of the pleasures of raves. ... Also, the prevalence of weed within the Rave culture has its own deleterious impacts. ... However, there are some solid facts to prove that the "Rave Culture" has its peculiar influences over immature community. ... In the early 1980s, drugs were reintroduced as a source of potent...
This is the rave culture. ... When a person examines a culture, a community or a society it is vital to study it's history and origin so that we can gain a better understanding of why they are as they are now. The rave culture and community can be traced back as far as one would like to research it. ... In any culture society or community one of the most noted characteristics is its people. ... It is most definitely a culture of escape. ...
What is a rave? ... Yet some people who go to the raves try to sell their drugs to ravers and that's what makes the word rave so bad. ... At raves there are different rooms. ... The visual effects and a lot at the raves. ... The reason is probably is that they think that they will just start something in the rave culture and cause trouble. ...
There was so much information in the book about the rave scene and "ecstasy", I didn't know where to begin. ... Simon Reynolds attempts to bridge the gap with "Generation Ecstasy," an exhaustive compendium of almost every rave-associated sound and idea, both half-baked and momentous, that traces the digital Diaspora back and forth across Europe and America. ... The drug-tech interface gives "Generation Ecstasy" a narrative backbone that applies again and again, across continents and cultures from Texas, where Ecstasy culture first reared its head in the mid-'80s, to Scotland,...
These types of drugs are most prominently used and seen at nightclubs and raves. ... The use of MDMA is central to dance music culture, especially EDM (Electronic Dance Music). Many of the common practices at raves stem from the use of MDMA. ... Historically, raves have been grounded in a sense of community and solidarity-rave goers are obliged to follow the four essential tenets of peace, love, unity, and respect (PLUR). ... The effects of MDMA lead the drug to the forefront of PLUR rave culture, but the drug is not the only way that ravers bond with each other. ...
