Rave

Anton Köllisch developed 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine as a by-product of research for a drug to combat abnormal bleeding. It was largely ignored for 70 years until it became popular in the dance clubs of the early 80s. It was only when the Rave culture of the late 80s adopted Ecstasy as its drug of choice that MDMA became one of the top four illegal drugs in use killing an estimated 50 people a year in the UK alone. Its inventor died in World War I. Medical reviews have noted that MDMA has…

music or rave scene. This genre, which emerged in the late 1980s, supports the ideal of compositions having “fast paced music” that is incorporated with “electronic light shows” (Scott, 2009) and quickly gained popularity amongst groups of young people of the time. The genre is still arguably very popular in modern culture and has developed into differentiating sub-genres such as “dubstep.” It can be argued however that a moral panic did occur in relation to the emergence of the dance or rave…

was placed under and are for the whole of the UK: 46. The defendant is prohibited from: A. Attending a rave as defined by s.63 (1) of the criminal justice and public order act 1994; B. Being concerned in the organisation of a rave as defined by s.63(1) of the criminal justice and public order act 1994; C. Knowingly using or supplying property, personal or otherwise, for use in a rave as defined by s.63(1) of the criminal justice and public order act 1994; D. Entering or remaining…

TV INFLUENCES- Fifty Years of Fashion by Valerie Steele p.118- Yuppie culture may have helped to be defined by popular TV shows such as Dynasty, a popular obsession and 1980s nighttime TV series. End paraphrase. The show garnered worldwide popularity, coinciding with the increased demand of cable within the households in Western culture. The show exhibited the lifestyle of the wealthy, wearing luxurious designer garments, perhaps responsible for furthering the ‘wealthy’ appearance trend of the…

In the mid 1990’s ‘Raves’ were illegal, and therefore not licensed to sell alcohol. As there was an increasing favour towards rave parties in the 1990’s amongst young party goers, raves started to become more organised with flyers rather than through hearsay. Drugs such as ecstasy and acid were very popular at that time until the Criminal Justice Act of 1994, when raves became increasingly raided. Ecstasy was the new ‘happy’ drug, trainers were…

substance. Psychologists wanted to use ecstasy as a therapeutic aid in the early 1990s. Psychologists tended to think of ecstasy as a what’s the harm drug like marijuana. The cops were more skeptical of ecstasy. The psychologists and cops alike regarded raves with a bewildered, anthropological…

Journalist Sarah Thornton wrote the book on ‘Club Cultures’ at the end of the ‘acid house’ movement and the raves within the ‘Madchester’ scene had finished. The rave scene was starting to become more mainstream therefor losing the desirable effect it had on the individuals within it. Because of this, moral panic that had specifically centred around drugs started to lose its newsworthiness. The main theme that seems to run throughout the text is the topic of subcultures and more specifically,…

So I recently went to an event at the Brooklyn bowl which was a new experience for me. My friends convinced me to go to a rave there and I really did not know what to expect. The reason I chose this as my location was because there was so much diversity in the venue. There was a lot of different ethnic groups I observed. When we got inside I felt so on edge because there was so many different types of people in one place that it was kind of overwhelming. It was not in a bad way I just felt like…

Music creates events such as concerts and raves that allows for easy circulation of drugs. Similarly, the involvement of drug references in music influences adolescents to participate in the consumption of illicit drugs. If this harmful relationship between music and drugs persists then illegal…

Imagine a place where hundreds of people go almost everyday to see a couple of people perform live and have a good time with all their friends. I went to The Rave and this is where that happens. On my birthday, February 4th, I went to Milwaukee Wisconsin to see Excision perform along with 12th Planet, Cookie Monsta, Dion Timmer, Bear Grillz and Barely Alive. Excision has always been one of my favorite music producers since I was around 12 years old. The music he produces is dubstep, not everyone…