Research Catalog

Title

Energy flash : a journey through rave music and dance culture / Simon Reynolds.

Author

Reynolds, Simon, 1963-

Publication

Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Reynolds, Simon, 1963-

Description

xxxvii, 570 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Describes the house music and drug use that created the rave culture of the 1990s, chronicling the musical and social history of the time through interviews with musicians, scene-makers, and participants.

Uniform Title

Generation ecstasy

Alternative Title

Generation ecstasy

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Rave culture
• Techno music > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Generation ecstasy. Boston : Little, Brown, c1998.
• Includes index.
• "A generation ecstasy extended remix for the twenty-first century"--Cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781593764074 (pbk.)
• 1593764073 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 779347351
• SCSB-11835759

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library