Rave

A rave is a large party or festival with disc jockeys playing electronic music. Music played at raves include house, trance, techno, drum and bass, dubstep and other forms of electronic dance music (EDM). There is a lot of dancing. Raves also have laser light shows, projected images and other visual effects used to create a fantasy-like scene.Scott R. Hutson, "The Rave: Spiritual Healing in Modern Western Subcultures", Anthropological Quarterly 73, no.1 (2000) 40-41. Accessed: 10/02/2013 12:47. Raves mostly developed from acid house music parties in the mid-to-late 1980s in England and Ibiza."The Problem of Rave Parties", Michael S. Scott, Center for Problem Oriented Policing, 2009, webpage: popc-rave. From there, it quickly spread to mainland Europe and the United States.Matthew Collin; John Godfrey (1997) Altered State - The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House, Serpent's Tail. .

Raves are usually organised and promoted by event companies. Some of the early companies promoting raves in England during the 1990s were Fantazia and Helter Skelter. Another was ESP Promotions, which held a series of raves named Dreamscape. In London, there were a few large clubs that held raves on a regular basis.

Related pages
 Disco
 Electronic body music
 Love Parade

References

Other websites
 Rave Timeline 1987-1993 
 Zines, flyers and mixtapes from 1990 to 1999
 Rave Footage from 1988 to 1994


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