Raving
RavingDefinition Paper
So where is the new fashion of ‘phat pants’, “street warfare” t-shirts, and crazy hair coming from? It’s all coming from the new fad of raving. Raves have been in the St. Louis area since 1993. Now in the year of the Millennium, the fad has caught on to many of today’s youth. Raves have a short history that began in England, but know the whole world is listening to the electronic beat. Raves are the subculture of today.
The first raves were held in England in the mid-eighties, either in empty warehouses or outdoors, in the countryside. Large numbers of people began to gather at all night parties where they danced to a new type of electronic, beat-orientated music. By 1987 or 1988, this new culture had spread to New York and Los Angeles, where it quickly caught on. Soon it would spread to Detroit and Chicago as well. By this time, dance music was composed, specifically, to be played at rave parties and was becoming more and more diverse. In Chicago, at a very popular club, called The Warehouse, a new type of music with a harder hitting, steadier beat called House was developed. Also in Detroit, a new type of music was birthed which captured the soul of the city in its even harder, more mechanical sound, known as Techno. Then in the early 1990’s, back in England, two forms of music, called dancehall and dub, were fused with modern technology to create what is now known as Jungle or Drum ‘n Bass. They had entirely different types of beats that focused on the drums and the bass. Together, these three types of music, and the culture that followed them, spread and matured rapidly, at the time when the harsh lyrically...
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