Raver Subculture Research Paper

Raver Subculture in Young America Over the past few years, an interesting focus has developed among our youth subculture in American society today. I have been interested in how the raver subculture has come into existence, and how they are able to maintain their unanimity and cohesiveness. This subculture mainly consists of people who go to "raves," also known as, underground dance parties where people go to hear "techno" (electronically produced) music and have intense experiences, which they feel are self-transforming. The ravers use an emotionally laden jargon to attempt to explain the intensity of their experiences to the unconverted. I felt that by researching the rave subculture I could come to a conclusion as to why ravers are choosing to use ecstasy as their choice of drug and the effects of it. There has been a great deal of research into how the rave subculture came into being from organization around music, to drugs, and countercultural norms and deviant practices in society. While there have been efforts to look at the interrelations between language, culture, and identity, most of this
Ravers talk about each person having a unique vibration or frequency that is transformed by the music, and how groups of people gather in synchronous dance forms a "self-iterative fractal" of harmonious motion. The rave is supposed to take people of all races, colors, and nationalities and unite them into a consciousness synchronized around the pulsating rhythm of techno music. However, rave music is said to be able to breakdown boundaries and those of self-limitation, and of alienation from others. Most importantly, ravers constantly are at work innovating new elements of language for creating a subcultural identity at odds with dominant self-images and