Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture - Hardcover

Reynolds, Simon

 
9780316741118: Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture

Synopsis

Explores the popularity of electronic dance music and the culture surrounding it, focusing on the fad of midnight-to-dawn revels, known as "raves," which offers a Dionysian world of dance, drugs, and debauchery

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Review

"Worthy. As a straightforward timeline account of rave culture-the DJs, the drugs, the choons, the clubs, the clobber-"Generation Ecstasy succeeds. Tracing the music. Reynolds shows that he certainly knows his stuff.."
-"Now, Toronto
"For anyone who has been to a rave or bought a techno CD, this book is an excellent complement. Reynolds does a great job throughout, even making this book readable for those who know littel or nothing about techno and rave culture."
-"Dead Trees Review
"Invaluable."
-"Toronto Star
"The single best book about rave culture."
-"The Roverfront Times
"A classic chronicle of the Nineties rave movement."
-James Hunter, "Rolling Stone

About the Author

Simon Reynolds is a Consulting Editor at Spin magazine. He is the author of Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock (1990) and, with Joy Press, of The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll (1995).

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9780415923736: Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture

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ISBN 10:  0415923735 ISBN 13:  9780415923736
Publisher: Routledge, 1999
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