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Energy flash : a journey through rave music and dance culture
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Title
Energy flash : a journey through rave music and dance culture / Simon Reynolds.
ISBN
9781593764074 (pbk.)
1593764073 (pbk.)
Edition
[Updated ed.].
Published
Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xxxvii, 570 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Rev. ed. of: Generation ecstasy. Boston : Little, Brown, c1998.
Includes index.
"A generation ecstasy extended remix for the twenty-first century"--Cover.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 24, 2012
Contents
Acknowledgements
Author's note
Preface to the updated edition
Intro
Everything starts with an E : ecstasy and rave music
A tale of three cities : Detroit techno, Chicago house and New York garage
Living a dream : acid house and UK rave, 1988-1989
Twenty-four hour party people: Manchester, positivity and the rave 'n' roll crossover
'Ardkore, you know the score : the second wave of rave, 1990-92
Fight for your right to party : spiral tribe and the crusty-raver movement
Feed your head : intelligent techno, ambient and trance
Slipping into darkness : the UK rave dream turns to nightmare, 1992-93
The future sound of Detroit : underground resistance, +8, and Carl Craig
This sound is for the underground : pirate radio
Roots 'n future : jungle takes over London
Marching into madness : gabba and happy hardcore
America the rave : US rave culture, 1990-1997
Sounds of paranoia : trip hop, tricky and pre-millennium tension
War in the jungle : intelligent drum and bass versus techstep
Digital psychedelia : sampling and the soundscape
Fuck dance, let's art : the post-rave experimental fringe
In our angelhood : rave culture as spiritual revolution
Outro : nineties house, speed garage and big beat
Trance mission : the late-nineties resurgence of trance
Two steps beyond : UK garage and 2step
In the mix : DJ culture and remixology
Back to the future : retro-electo, nu-wave and the eighties revival
Crisis and consolidation : an overview of rave culture's second decade
Flashbacks : a dialogue with the author.
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