Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

Twenty-five years since acid house and Ecstasy revolutionized pop culture, Simon Reynolds's landmark rave history Energy Flash has been expanded and updated to cover twenty-first-century developments like dubstep and EDM's recent takeover of America. A longtime writer on the music beat, Reynolds started watching-and partaking in-the rave scene early on, observing firsthand ecstasy’s sense-heightening and serotonin-surging effects on the music and the scene. In telling the story, Reynolds goes way beyond straight music history, mixing social history, interviews with participants and scene-makers, and his own analysis of the sounds with the names of key places, tracks, groups, scenes, and artists. He delves deep into the panoply of rave-worthy drugs and proper rave attitude and etiquette, exposing a nuanced musical phenomenon.

Details

Subjects

Music

Type

Book

Place of publication

London

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year

2013

Number of pages

766 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9780571289134

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

No

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

780 Rey

Volumes

1

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