Fight, Flight, or Chill
Subcultures, Youth, and Rave into the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
Published on 23. March 2006
230 pages
978-0-7735-7616-2 (ISBN)
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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.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Youth Culture, Complexity, and Rave
- PART ONE: Rave Culture, History, and Social Experience
- 2 From New York to Ibiza to Britain to Toronto: Rave Histories, Contexts, and Panics
- 3 Doctrines, Disappointments, and Dance: Perspectives and Activities in the Rave Scene
- 4 Making Impressions, Making Investments: Identities, Relationships, Commitments, and Rave
- PART TWO: Reading Rave, Interpreting Youth Culture
- 5 Fight, Flight, or Chill: Reconsidering Youth Subcultural Resistance
- 6 Marketing "The Vibe": Community, Nostalgia, Political Economy, and Rave
- Conclusion
- 7 Raise a Fist? Reflections on Theory and Practice
- Appendix 1: Comments about Method and Theory
- References
- Index
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