What is the enduring appeal of rave culture and can it be considered a subculture?
A study into the UK’s biggest youth culture in order to establish how it has become a lasting legacy and whether or not it should be ‘considered’ authentic in today’s society.
“Young men with shaved heads and pigtails, stripped to the waist, are executing vaguely oriental hand movements. Freeze-framed by strobes in clouds of dry ice, revivalist hippies and mods are swaying in the maelstrom. Rastas, ragga girls, ravers there is no stylistic cohesion to the assembly, as there would have been in the (g)olden days of youth culture. So what is this noise that has united these teenage tribes? (Willis: 1993)
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