Folks in the scene stopped referring to raves as such around 1993-4 because of increasingly negative connotations associated with the word rave. However, for clarity and ease I will continue to use this term. For further discussion please see the section on linguistics. A scene often refers to a social phenomena that is considerably less permanent and insubstantial than a community. For a greater discussion of what constitutes a scene and a community, please see the section on community.
Many people speak of the spiritual aspect of the rave .
In many respects rave is a celebration of life. It is not a modernist revival simply because it does have spiritual overtones. For further discussion of the roles of old and new please see the section on commodification. However, it will be interesting to watch new trends in the mainstream music industry. I would say that the majority of the media created for and by the rave community is audio and visual.