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Club Culture Raves are club’s held outside established dance venues in unconventional places which tend to feature certain genres of dance music including house, acid house, techno and jungle music. ‘Club culture’ is the expression given to youth cultures for whom dance clubs, and their eighties offshoot, raves, are the symbolic axis and working social hub. ... (Thorton, 1996:13) Club culture is classified according to the taste in music, forms of dance, kinds of ritual and styles in clothing. ... The binary oppositions of the of club culture are as follows: US THEM Alternative Mainstream Hip / cool Straight / square / naff Independent Commercial Authentic False / phoney Rebellious / radical Conformist / conservative Specialist genres Pop Insider knowledge Easily accessible information Minority Majority Heterogenous Homogenous Youth Family Classless Classed Masculine culture Feminine culture (Thorton, 1996:115) Club culture is a regaining of innocence and forgetting about problems for a while. ... The most prominent characteristics of the club culture are drugs, age, style in clothing and music. Drugs Speed and cocaine have long been club drugs, while ecstasy (sometimes pharmaceutical MDMA, often a cocktail of amphetamines and LSD) is the prototypical drug of the rave scene. ... It would seem that legal drugs like alcohol are used by clubbers to ‘symbolise the achievement of adult status’, while illicit drugs are used to signify a rejection of adult culture. |
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