The Virtual and Spiritual Rave Sub-Culture

Over the years a variety of youth subcultures associated with medication, trip the light fantastic, and unconventional forms of ghostlikeity have emerged. The 1980s introduced us to a confederacy of fast-paced, repetitive electronic music with choreographed laser shows. This was the birth of the jabber culture. Many argue the notion that rave is a subculture, as it has not established an identifiable dress code or set itself apart from the wider culture. Some of those that acknowledge rave as a subculture say it is nothing more then music plus drugs. The rave subculture is much more then that, it is a matrix of lifestyle that blends music, art and social ideals with ritualized behaviors. Meaningful spiritual transformations occur at raves, as illustrated in this essay. In plus what sets the rave subculture apart from other youth subcultures associated with music, is that technology plays an organic part in the formation and maintenance of the rave group. In 1988, Britain experienced what has come to be dubbed the second summer of love, a time and label now synonymous with the mass-mediated emergence of the all-night dance/drug culture known as Rave or Acid House. (Herman and Ott 284).

The rave subculture emerged after Paul Oakenfold (a now known DJ) rented a villa in Ibiza and brought down a bunch of DJ friends to celebrate his twenty-sixth birthday. There they were introduced to a new musical mode of clubbing and a new drug called ecstasy. After locomote home to the UK from a hedonistic summer in Ibiza, Oakfenfold dogged to recreate the concept at a South capital of the United Kingdom Club. (Reynolds 58). Reynolds states that Oakenfold persuaded the owner of a venue called Project Club, to let him stolon an illegal after-hours event. Oakenfold flew in Ibizas famous DJ Alfredo Fiorillo in from Ibiza and invited all the main heads, the key people in London, from fashion to film to music to clubland to attend the recreation of his hedonistic summer in the Mediterranean (58). What these prime movers... If you want to rise a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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