[Dancecult-l] Dancecult-l Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

[Adam Walker]

Hi Stephanie...nice to hear ya!  So tell us more, what was/is the title of 
your MA thesis?  Also, what are new texts (and yourself) - like 'Fight, 
Flight or Chill' - including about post-rave phenomnena now?  Are we likely 
to witness the emergence of a focused area of study any time soon?  (I 
loathe the haphazzard use of the terms post, pre, neo, etc)

Regards,
Adam


>From: Stephanie Kale <steph_kale at yahoo.com>
>To: Dancecult-l at listcultures.org
>Subject: Re: [Dancecult-l] Dancecult-l Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2
>Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:37:30 -0700 (PDT)
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>I must admit that 'Fight, Flight or Chill' is a very compelling read. An 
>advance copy fell into my hands the day after I submitted the final copy of 
>my MA thesis, and was terrifyingly reassuring for the way in which I 
>organized my work and contextualized rave and post-rave within a history of 
>cultural theory. In addition to an entire chapter devoted to discussing the 
>political economy of the scene (a topic I found difficult to locate other 
>than being mentioned in passing), Wilson also heavily discusses the work of 
>Pini and McRobbie, two authors I found essential for developing my thesis 
>project.
>   Anyway, I have been a fairly silent member over the past year and half, 
>but I'd like to extend my gratitude and appreciation to everyone 
>contributing to this list serve. Even if the topics discussed were not 
>pertinent to my subject matter, the enthusiasm behind studying EDMC was 
>always encouraging and inspiring.
>
>   Cheers,
>   Stephanie Kale
>   MA Political Economy
>Carleton University
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>1. Fight, Flight, or Chill: Subcultures, Youth and Rave into the
>Twenty-First Century by Brian Wilson (Graham St John)
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>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:54:23 +0100
>From: Graham St John
>Subject: [Dancecult-l] Fight, Flight, or Chill: Subcultures, Youth and
>Rave into the Twenty-First Century by Brian Wilson
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>Recent book from McGill-Queens University Press:
>
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>Fight, Flight, or Chill: Subcultures, Youth, and Rave into the
>Twenty-First Century
>Brian Wilson
>http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1957
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>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.
>
>Fight, Flight or Chill explores the extent to which raver youths'
>experiences are constrained or determined by individualistic,
>high-tech, mass-mediated Western culture in which alienated and
>unfulfilled youth are apparently more at-risk for escapist and
>thrill-seeking behaviours. Wilson considers how raver youth
>creatively and proactively subvert these constraints in novel and
>empowering ways - from political activism to symbolic and stylistic
>expressions of resistance to community-building efforts. He also
>discusses the globalization and political economy of rave and youth
>culture and examines the ideologies that underlie simple solutions to
>the complex concerns over young people today.
>
>Table of Contents
>
>Acknowledgments | vii
>Introduction
>1 Youth Culture, Complexity, and Rave | 3
>
>PART ONE
>Rave Culture, History, and Social Experience
>2 From New York to Ibiza to Britain to Toronto: Rave Histories,
>Contexts, and Panics | 36
>3 Doctrines, Disappointments, and Dance: Perspectives and Activities
>in the Rave Scene | 72
>4 Making Impressions, Making Investments: Identities, Relationships,
>Commitments, and Rave | 106
>
>PART TWO
>Reading Rave, Interpreting Youth Culture
>5 Fight, Flight, or Chill: Reconsidering Youth Subcultural Resistance | 128
>6 Marketing "The Vibe": Community, Nostalgia, Political Economy, and Rave | 
>156
>
>Conclusion
>7 Raise a Fist? Reflections on Theory and Practice | 174
>Appendix 1: Comments about Method and Theory | 182
>References | 193
>Index | 211
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