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Fight, flight, or chill : subcultures, youth and rave into the twenty-first century / Brian Wilson.
- Title
- Fight, flight, or chill : subcultures, youth and rave into the twenty-first century / Brian Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, Brian, 1969-
- Publication
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.
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- Description
- vii, 216 p. : ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This books explores the extent to which raver youths' experiences are constrained or determined by individualistic, high-tech, mass-mediated Western culture in which alientated 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Youth culture, complexity, and rave. PART ONE. Rave culture, history, and social experience. From New York to Ibiza to Britain to Toronto: rave histories, contexts, and panics -- Doctrines, disappointments, and dance: perspectives and activities in the rave scene -- Making impressions, making investments: identities, relationships, commitments, and rave. PART TWO. Reading rave, interpreting youth culture. Fight, flight, or chill: reconsidering youth subcultural resistance -- Marketing "The vibe": community, nostalgia, political economy, and rave. Conclusion. Raise a fist? Reflections on theory and practice. Appendix 1: Comments about method and theory.
- ISBN
- 0773530134 (bound)
- 0773530614 (pbk.)
- 9780773530133
- LCCN
- ^^2006297016
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library