Caleb Nelson Professor Overfelt Social Movement Essay March 31‚ 2013 Straight Edge: Subculture and Social Movement In the early 1980’s‚ a hardcore punk band called Minor Threat wrote a song called “Straight Edge”. In this song‚ front man Ian MacKaye versed lyrics about not needing drugs or any substance to live a positive lifestyle. The song lyrics marked a new beginning of a subculture consisting of youth in a punk/hardcore scene that decided to be different and go against the grain. Straight
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community. With that being said‚ without drugs present‚ the EDM community would be a completely different subculture. Originating in the late 80’s in Britain‚ raves consisted of wild bohemian parties that continued expanding in the UK‚ and spread to the United States. With the dramatic gain of popularity of the musical movement‚ also came the drastic transformations. In almost every corner of a rave‚ the strong presence of drugs dominates nearly every and any other aspect in an EDM-ers mind. Similar
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layers of music. DJ’s blend the music together which is called mixing or beat matching (It is important that a DJ doesn’t get a clash of beats of notes when doing this). A song is usually 4 beats to a bar and is faster than house music but slower than rave music. Trance traditionally used classical music as its base and then remixed it into a modern style. Today Dj’s mix modern songs and add a series of beats and
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Drop The Glowsticks The dictionary defines "rave" as: to utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; to rave nonsense‚ which makes you wonder why raves were ever called raves to begin with. Raves consist of about 300-6‚000 kids aged 14 to about 25. The setting‚ a big empty warehouse‚ lights‚ a fog machine and multiple Disc Jockeys (DJ). Every single rave has 1 type of music: techno with a lot of bass. It’s electronically created with a very fast-pace beat. Techno music has its origins in gay dance
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attend all night dance parties called “raves” and come face to face with a number of dangerous people and substances. Raves are typically found in abandoned warehouses or other buildings‚ dance clubs‚ and open fields. During these dances‚ there is usually blaring‚ fast-paced techno music with colorful and bright laser light displays. Aside from all of the dancing and fun‚ many young adults die every year from the popular drugs‚ nicknamed “Club Drugs‚” found at raves. The most popular club drugs are
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The Past‚ Present and Future Throughout the last 50 years‚ humanity has witnessed many changes that have attired and changed our lives in many ways. The emergence of technology in our lives‚ for example‚ has caused life to become simpler by making connections easier between people. Changes such as these have caused many differences between each generation. Whilst comparing the life of our generation and our parent’s generation we can see that various aspects have changed like technology‚ education
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is without the DJ none of it would have been possible. In the early nineties this growing underground movement started to form slowly in the United States and other countries. These parties soon took on the name of “raves”. In Europe these raves grew constantly. Soon there were raves being thrown with five to ten thousand people in attendance. Soon thereafter we started to see not only the growth of a music and culture but also a new industry. There started to be more and more electronic artists
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Electronic dance music is a music genre that largely stems from the production methods of hip hop‚ disco‚ house‚ and techno music. This music was originally born in the nightclub scene in the 1980s‚ the warehouse party scene in the 1980s‚ and the rave scene of the “acid house movement” in the 1980s. By the mid-1990s‚ the presence of electronic dance music spread throughout the world and today is one of the most popular forms of music there is. Electronic dance music is constructed with electronic
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Rave It! Have you ever had a catchy tune that you can not get out of your head? Techno is one of those catchy tunes that get stuck in my head all the time. It has sounds that no instrument can imitate. “Techno has come a long since the 80’s throw the early 90’s especially in Detroit”(Sounds like Techno). Here in California it has just mainstreamed in to a lot of radio play and exposure. Once you tune on the radio you will hear some sort of Techno music or in other words electronic. It has changed
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people together from around the world to bask in the euphoria that is Tomorrowland. It’s unique‚ psychedelic carnival atmosphere is complimented by its electronic and dance music line-up that also features other similar genres such as trance‚ house‚ rave and dubstep. With sounds taking precedence over lyrics‚ electro rhythms face almost no language barriers and that’s a major part of the music’s popularity around the world. Some of the past line-ups include Skrillex‚ Swedish House Mafia‚ David Guetta
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