{"id":2161,"date":"2018-08-27T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2018-08-20T11:57:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:57:44","slug":"youth-and-the-development-of-rave-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2018\/08\/27\/youth-and-the-development-of-rave-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth and the Development of \u201cRave\u201d Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2162\" style=\"width: 533px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/indi\/1352503477\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2162\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/08\/1352503477_384b9e1102_z-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/08\/1352503477_384b9e1102_z-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/08\/1352503477_384b9e1102_z-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2018\/08\/1352503477_384b9e1102_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Indi Samarajiva, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5>The word \u201crave\u201devokes different responses depending upon one\u2019s generation. For many it symbolizes fun all-night dance parties with friends. While the public may be quick to associate rave culture with youth delinquency, social science explores the broader range of social, spiritual, and cultural elements of raves and electronic dance music (EDM). Raves began in 1980s Britain and quickly spread to the United States. Youth created these anti-establishment and and underground events to celebrate peace, love, unity, and respect &#8212; otherwise known as \u201cPLUR.\u201d However, heavy drug consumption resulted in media scrutiny and government crackdowns of these underground locations in the 1990s and early 2000s, pushing raves into more formal spaces like clubs.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdhs.udel.edu\/people\/researchers\/Anderson1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tammy L. Anderson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2009. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1573-7861.2009.01101.x\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding the Alteration and Decline of a Music Scene: Observations from Rave Culture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sociological Forum\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">24(2): 307-336.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdhs.udel.edu\/people\/researchers\/Anderson1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tammy L. Anderson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2014. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1536504214558217\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Molly Deaths and the Failed War on Drugs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contexts\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13(4): 48-53.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shadi Kardan. 2003. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals\/nejccc29&amp;div=8&amp;id=&amp;page=\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government&#8217;s New War on Drugs: Threatening the Right to Dance!<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">29(1): 99-124.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Social scientists have explored raves and the electronic dance music scene from two different perspectives. The cultural perspective emphasizes a sense of community and empathy for its members as the roots of the scene. From this perspective, drug use enhances these experiences. The rave has been portrayed as a youth cultural phenomenon, characterized by belonging, self-expression, acceptance, camaraderie, escape, and solidarity, and where drugs &#8212; particularly ecstasy or \u201cE\u201d &#8212; are often central to the scene or tools in rebellion. From the public health perspective, excessive drug use is the defining feature of rave culture. Here raves and the electronic dance music scene are perceived as dangerous drug subcultures that increased drug-related health problems in the United States. However, some debate these claims and argue that the effects of ecstasy itself are linked to feelings of closeness and solidarity at raves.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/harrisburg.psu.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/philip-kavanaugh-phd\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philip R. Kavanaugh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdhs.udel.edu\/people\/researchers\/Anderson1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tammy L. Anderson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2008. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2007.00111.x\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solidarity and Drug Use in The Electronic Dance Music Scene<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sociological Quarterly\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">49(1): 181-208.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>While typically not linked to public perceptions of rave culture, some scholars connect raves and electronic dance music culture (EDMC) to religion and spirituality. In particular, scholars point to the non-Christian religiosity of rave\u2019s dance \u201critual,\u201d likening it to the non-denominational \u201cnew church.\u201d Further, EDM inherits its ritualistic, chanting, and percussive elements from African, Asian, and Indigenous cultures in North America, and African American, Latino, and gay communities in Chicago and New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. Thus, youth promoted raves as place of growth, sacredness, and unity, where youth were not divided through class, ethnicity, and gender.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/users\/graham-st-john\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graham St. John<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2004. \u201cIntroduction.\u201d Pp. 1-15 in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Rave-Culture-and-Religion\/St-John\/p\/book\/9780415552509\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rave Culture and Religion<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, edited by G. St. John. London and New York: Routledge.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/users\/graham-st-john\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graham St John<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2006. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01438300600625259\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Electronic Dance Music Culture and Religion: An Overview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Culture and Religion\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7(1): 1-25.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though the shape and form of raves and rave culture continues to change, both cultural and public health scholars agree that these events are much more than sporadic, all night dance parties.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word \u201crave\u201devokes different responses depending upon one\u2019s generation. For many it symbolizes fun all-night dance parties with friends. While the public may be quick to associate rave culture with youth delinquency, social science explores the broader range of social, spiritual, and cultural elements of raves and electronic dance music (EDM). 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