 | Fight, Flight, or Chill: Subcultures, Youth, and Rave into the Twenty-First Century Subjects: Rave culture -- Ontario; Youth -- Recreation -- Ontario; Youth -- Ontario; Rave culture -- Case studies; Youth -- Ontario -- Case studies; Rave is one of the first distinct and significant youth subcultures to emerge since the early days of punk rockers and skinheads. A middle-class culture renowned for drug use, computer-generated "techno" music, and all-night dance parties, rave has been described as everything from a drug cult to a neo-hippie community. Brian Wilson uses his ethnographic research on rave during the mid and late 1990s in Southern Ontario to discuss the ways in which young people participate in social and cultural life at the turn of the millennium. Wilson Brian : Brian Wilson is associate professor, cultural studies and sociology, School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia.Brian Wilson is associate professor, cultural studies and sociology, School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia. |
