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Fight, Flight, or
Chill
Subcultures, Youth, and Rave into the Twenty-First
Century
Brian Wilson
Rave is one of
the first distinct and significant youth subcultures to emerge since the early
days of punk rockers and skinheads. A middle-class culture renowned for drug
use, computer-generated "techno" music, and all-night dance parties, rave has
been described as everything from a drug cult to a neo-hippie community. Brian
Wilson uses his ethnographic research on rave during the mid and late 1990s in
Southern Ontario to discuss the ways in which young people participate in social
and cultural life at the turn of the millennium.
Fight, Flight or
Chill explores the extent to which raver youths' experiences are
constrained or determined by individualistic, high-tech, mass-mediated Western
culture in which alienated and unfulfilled youth are apparently more at-risk for
escapist and thrill-seeking behaviours. Wilson considers how raver youth
creatively and proactively subvert these constraints in novel and empowering
ways - from political activism to symbolic and stylistic expressions of
resistance to community-building efforts. He also discusses the globalization
and political economy of rave and youth culture and examines the ideologies that
underlie simple solutions to the complex concerns over young people today.
Brian Wilson is associate professor, cultural studies and sociology,
School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments |
vii
Introduction
1 Youth Culture, Complexity, and Rave | 3
PART
ONE
Rave Culture, History, and Social Experience
2 From New York to Ibiza
to Britain to Toronto: Rave Histories, Contexts, and Panics | 36
3 Doctrines,
Disappointments, and Dance: Perspectives and Activities in the Rave Scene |
72
4 Making Impressions, Making Investments: Identities, Relationships,
Commitments, and Rave | 106
PART TWO
Reading Rave, Interpreting Youth
Culture
5 Fight, Flight, or Chill: Reconsidering Youth Subcultural Resistance
| 128
6 Marketing “The Vibe”: Community, Nostalgia, Political Economy, and
Rave | 156
Conclusion
7 Raise a Fist? Reflections on Theory and
Practice | 174
Appendix 1: Comments about Method and Theory |
182
References | 193
Index | 211
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