1. Where does the term „Techno“ for this music genre come from?
The term „Techno“ goes back to the 1970s when Alvin Toffler published a book with the title „Future Shock“ by speaking about „Techno-rebells“ who use the most modern technology to fight the system subversively which created those technologies. Since the early 80s, the term was used in several interviews and in 1984 Cybotron from Detroit published in an „Electro“-sampler a single with the title „Techno-City“. Afterwards It took part of the Hip Hop scene because some breakdancer created a new breakdance style where they imitated a twitching robot, called „Electric Boogie“. But it didn't take long for the electronic dance music to develop itself and to have an own huge music genre …show more content…
Is Techno a subculture then?
This youth culture was based on the opposites of fun and resistance, commerce and individuality, consumption and ideology. So yes, it is a subculture where technology and bodies have merged and found each other. The techno and rave culture is the epitome of a new youth culture whose ideology, aesthetics and practice seem to be very different than previous youth and pop culture“ (Klein 2004: 5). This subculture is a collective lifestyle of individuals, with a central focus on the sense of community, where friends or acquaintances from or within the scene are understood as „family".
On the other hand, in 1996, the magazine „Der Spiegel“ described the techno and rave culture as a youth culture that does not much in itself. It has only the energy to say goodbye to the wrong life on Friday night and look for the right thing until Monday morning, in the stifling mist of the dance floors, in their flashes of light and their thunder of noise. „For beatniks, for hippies, for ecologists, for punks and other rebels, the fun of the other life in bad life has always been a foretaste of the future; for the raver the party is his life and his future […]" (Schnibben 1996). Furthermore, the techno-goers are accused by the society, they are, in contrast to previous youth cultures, politically distant, hostile to discourse, they lack a basic attitude, they are linguistically reduced, they are oriented exclusively to fun and their body, combined with the use of …show more content…
The emphasis on the rhythm, which becomes the pulse of the rave or the mass that moves to it. The authorship or the star are largely negated by putting DJ and dancers on one level (Sicko 2010: 58). All participants are equal. Drugs help to rediscover and experience the body and the perception of the self as well as the environment and time.
While pop culture appears as a search for footprints, and spaces play an important role in creating points of reference, in techno culture they are attracted by the visit of spaces that arise out of nowhere and disappear again. Techno culture does not want to leave any traces; rather, this is about the creation of a parallel world, which does not want to show any references to the real world. Any references that would make reference to the real world or a form of historicity will be resolved. The focus is on no political goals other than creating a big happy community (Bridges 2005: 221).
Although Techno is a youth movement, reference-lessness makes a big and significant difference to a subculture such as the punk. Since Techno is not explicitly such as referring to the hegemonic culture by means of bricolage, a new form of subcultural group identity appears
The term „Techno“ goes back to the 1970s when Alvin Toffler published a book with the title „Future Shock“ by speaking about „Techno-rebells“ who use the most modern technology to fight the system subversively which created those technologies. Since the early 80s, the term was used in several interviews and in 1984 Cybotron from Detroit published in an „Electro“-sampler a single with the title „Techno-City“. Afterwards It took part of the Hip Hop scene because some breakdancer created a new breakdance style where they imitated a twitching robot, called „Electric Boogie“. But it didn't take long for the electronic dance music to develop itself and to have an own huge music genre …show more content…
Is Techno a subculture then?
This youth culture was based on the opposites of fun and resistance, commerce and individuality, consumption and ideology. So yes, it is a subculture where technology and bodies have merged and found each other. The techno and rave culture is the epitome of a new youth culture whose ideology, aesthetics and practice seem to be very different than previous youth and pop culture“ (Klein 2004: 5). This subculture is a collective lifestyle of individuals, with a central focus on the sense of community, where friends or acquaintances from or within the scene are understood as „family".
On the other hand, in 1996, the magazine „Der Spiegel“ described the techno and rave culture as a youth culture that does not much in itself. It has only the energy to say goodbye to the wrong life on Friday night and look for the right thing until Monday morning, in the stifling mist of the dance floors, in their flashes of light and their thunder of noise. „For beatniks, for hippies, for ecologists, for punks and other rebels, the fun of the other life in bad life has always been a foretaste of the future; for the raver the party is his life and his future […]" (Schnibben 1996). Furthermore, the techno-goers are accused by the society, they are, in contrast to previous youth cultures, politically distant, hostile to discourse, they lack a basic attitude, they are linguistically reduced, they are oriented exclusively to fun and their body, combined with the use of …show more content…
The emphasis on the rhythm, which becomes the pulse of the rave or the mass that moves to it. The authorship or the star are largely negated by putting DJ and dancers on one level (Sicko 2010: 58). All participants are equal. Drugs help to rediscover and experience the body and the perception of the self as well as the environment and time.
While pop culture appears as a search for footprints, and spaces play an important role in creating points of reference, in techno culture they are attracted by the visit of spaces that arise out of nowhere and disappear again. Techno culture does not want to leave any traces; rather, this is about the creation of a parallel world, which does not want to show any references to the real world. Any references that would make reference to the real world or a form of historicity will be resolved. The focus is on no political goals other than creating a big happy community (Bridges 2005: 221).
Although Techno is a youth movement, reference-lessness makes a big and significant difference to a subculture such as the punk. Since Techno is not explicitly such as referring to the hegemonic culture by means of bricolage, a new form of subcultural group identity appears