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    Energy flash : a journey through rave music and dance culture / Simon Reynolds.

    • Title:Energy flash : a journey through rave music and dance culture / Simon Reynolds.
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    • Author/Creator:Reynolds, Simon, 1963- author.
    • Published/Created:London : Faber and Faber, 2013.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Rave culture--History.
      Techno music--History and criticism.
      Drugs and popular music.
    • Edition:New and rev. ed.
    • Description:xliv, 765 pages ; 24 cm
    • Summary:25 years after acid house and Ecstasy revolutionised pop culture, Simon Reynolds's landmark rave history 'Energy Flash' has been expanded and updated to cover 21st-century developments like dubstep and EDM's recent takeover of America.
    • Notes:Includes index.
    • ISBN:9780571289134 (pbk.)
      0571289134 (pbk.)
    • Contents:PROLOGUE: Everything Starts With an E: Ecstasy and Rave Music
      ONE: A Tale of Three Cities: Detroit Techno, Chicago House and New York Garage
      TWO: Living A Dream: Acid House and UK Rave, 1988-89
      THREE: Twentyfour-Hour Party People: Madchester, Positivity and the Rave 'n' Roll Crossover
      FOUR: 'Ardkore You Know the Score: The Second Wave of Rave, 1990-92
      FIVE: Fight for the Right to Party: Spiral Tribe and the Crusty-Raver Movement
      SIX: Feed Your Head: Intelligent Techno, Ambient and Trance
      SEVEN: Slipping Into Darkness: the UK Rave Dream Turns to Nightmare, 1992-93
      EIGHT: The Future Sound of Detroit: Underground Resistance, +8, and Carl Craig
      NINE: This Sound is for the Underground: Pirate Radio
      TEN: Roots'n Future: Jungle Takes Over London
      ELEVEN: Marching Into Madness: Gabba and Happy Hardcore
      TWELVE: America the Rave: US Rave Culture,1990-97
      THIRTEEN: Sounds of Paranoia: Trip Hop, Tricky and Pre-Millennium Tension
      FOURTEEN: War in the Jungle: Intelligent Drum and Bass Versus Techstep
      FIFTEEN: Digital Psychedelia: Sampling and the Soundscape
      SIXTEEN: Fuck Dance, Let's Art: The Post-Rave Experimental Fringe
      SEVENTEEN: In Our Angelhood: Rave Culture as Spiritual Revolution
      EIGHTEEN: Outro: Nineties House, Speed Garage and Big Beat
      NINETEEN: Trance Mission: The Late-Nineties Resurgence of Trance
      TWENTY: Two Steps Beyond: UK Garage and 2step
      TWENTY-ONE: In the Mix: DJ Culture and Remixology
      TWENTY-TWO: Back to the Future: Retro-electro, Nu-wave and the Eighties Revival
      TWENTY-THREE: Crisis and Consolidation: An Overview of Rave Culture's Second Decade
      TWENTY-FOUR: Flashbacks: A Dialogue With the Author.
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