Rave Culture

Rave Culture and Its Effects on Popular Culture Raving is a highly subjective experience. Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience. Author Daniel Martin defines a rave as “a long period of constant energetic and stylistic dancing exhibited by a large group of people in a hot, crowded facility providing continuous loud House music and an accompanying strobe lit psychedelic light show” (78). Since the beginning of this …showed first 75 words of 1333 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1333 total…part of the scene. Jordan, Joel. Searching for the Perfect Beat. New York: Watson-Giptil Publications, 2000. Martin, Daniel. “Power Play and Party Politics: The Significance of Raving.” Journal of Popular Culture 32.4 (Spring 1999): 77-99. Pesch, Martin. “Techno Style.” Zurich: Edition Olms, 1998. Redhead, Steve, ed. Rave Off: Politics and Deviance in Contemporary Youth Culture. Aldershot: Avebury, 1993. Robson, Philip. Forbidden Drugs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism. London: Allen and Unwin, 1976.