In the reading, Economic Status and Raving, Christina Robinson writes about the raving subculture and how the amount of disposable income one has plays a factor into this subculture. Robinson wrote this essay based on her own personal experience 's with this subculture during her fist two years at Bentley College. Robinson starts her essay talking about the US economy and how it heavily affects the world economy as a whole. This has allowed many Americans to have more of a disposable income than some other countries citizen 's might have and with these parents who are living their economic dream now want their kids to continue this and be perfect in all areas of their life. Robinson thus theorizes that, “this increased pressure, coupled with
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Robinson wrote this essay based on personal experiences while in college which would make her an insider in the discussion and I would describe her writing in this piece as objective towards the subject. For evidence, Robinson uses data of the economic rise and fall of unemployment rates in the late 1980 's to the early 2000 's. All in all, Robinson writes a credible and convincing article on rave culture, the reasons to it 's rise and brings the reader into this subculture to see what it is really about. My question about the raving subculture is, how did EDM or techo music become the music of choice for these ravers over other popular music of the time? To answer this question I used sources like Robinson 's text as well as certain articles online to give me a better view of the subculture and it 's appeal to people. I needed to look into the origins of raving as a culture and see how the music at these raves became the techno music we here today. I consul Robinson 's text as well as certain articles online to investigate this question and find my …show more content…
This would help create an electronic sound that would evolve through the 1970 's and help create electro music from the 1980 's. By the late 80 's, house music would take over the club scene in Europe where people would party all night and took drugs like MDMA which started to become popular. Starting in Ibiza, Spain, these parties would move across Europe to places like London and Germany and then eventually America. Artists in America would start to experiment with this new style of music and create their own styles. Despite all of this, America would not fully adopt techno music as the music of choice for their raves until the late 1990 's where the genre of music would become more popular in
Robinson wrote this essay based on personal experiences while in college which would make her an insider in the discussion and I would describe her writing in this piece as objective towards the subject. For evidence, Robinson uses data of the economic rise and fall of unemployment rates in the late 1980 's to the early 2000 's. All in all, Robinson writes a credible and convincing article on rave culture, the reasons to it 's rise and brings the reader into this subculture to see what it is really about. My question about the raving subculture is, how did EDM or techo music become the music of choice for these ravers over other popular music of the time? To answer this question I used sources like Robinson 's text as well as certain articles online to give me a better view of the subculture and it 's appeal to people. I needed to look into the origins of raving as a culture and see how the music at these raves became the techno music we here today. I consul Robinson 's text as well as certain articles online to investigate this question and find my …show more content…
This would help create an electronic sound that would evolve through the 1970 's and help create electro music from the 1980 's. By the late 80 's, house music would take over the club scene in Europe where people would party all night and took drugs like MDMA which started to become popular. Starting in Ibiza, Spain, these parties would move across Europe to places like London and Germany and then eventually America. Artists in America would start to experiment with this new style of music and create their own styles. Despite all of this, America would not fully adopt techno music as the music of choice for their raves until the late 1990 's where the genre of music would become more popular in