{"id":1028,"date":"2013-09-05T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2013-09-05T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:36:40","slug":"a-history-of-rave-from-the-uk-to-ultra-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/2013\/09\/05\/a-history-of-rave-from-the-uk-to-ultra-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"a history of rave: from the UK to Ultra Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost six months since the Ultra Music Festival held its ninth annual event in Miami, an official &#8220;aftermovie&#8221; was just released two days ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so bonkers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.residentadvisor.net\/feed-item.aspx?id=68725\" target=\"_blank\">over the top<\/a> in how it depicts the state of the art in rave culture, it calls for a juxtaposition with an earlier moment in rave culture, from northern England circa 1992.\u00a0 Try to give yourself the full 17 and 15 minutes to appreciate these respective videos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RELIVE ULTRA MIAMI 2013 (Official Aftermovie)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/caYdSWljo1g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Doncaster warehouse tribute video  Djing Easy-D 007 &amp; DJ M-zone\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bM3xf87CbIQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I&#8217;m still trying to figure out what the contrast in these two videos all means.\u00a0 If you have some thoughts, please share them below!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Some initial observations:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">1. The production values of the 2013 Miami footage are extremely high, possibly unprecedented in the genre of branded EDM video content, but don&#8217;t be misled into thinking that the Doncaster video is unedited and &#8220;raw.&#8221; Indeed, this Doncaster warehouse video is itself <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/epic_cuddle_puddle_e-tards_rolling_and_thizzing_on_whiffle_dust\" target=\"_blank\">rather notorious <\/a>(860,000 views as of today!).\u00a0 There&#8217;s definitely a self-conscious presentation of rave culture going on in both of these.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">2. Calling this a <em>history<\/em> of rave is maybe a misnomer, since the journey of two decades doesn&#8217;t necessarily constitute a coherent narrative.\u00a0 Common signifiers notwithstanding \u2014 house music, youth, dancing, the drug MDMA, communion, a largely white crowd, a self-conscious invocation of &#8220;rave,&#8221; etc. \u2014 there&#8217;s a serious contrast of economic venture, national context, and the (extra-)ordinariness of these respective events in the daily lives of youth in the worlds depicted here, not to mention the complications posed by two decades of house music&#8217;s generic advances and global reach.\u00a0 It might be wise to think about the contrasts in these videos in terms of something other than a teleological development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">3. I&#8217;ve loved house music and participated in its underground scenes since the mid 1990s, but there&#8217;s almost no way a 40-something like myself can ask &#8220;Where has house music come in these two decades&#8221; without sounding like a cranky old-timer who&#8217;s nostalgic for days gone by, or envious of young people today.\u00a0 So rave on, kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost six months since the Ultra Music Festival held its ninth annual event in Miami, an official &#8220;aftermovie&#8221; was just released two days ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so bonkers and over the top in how it depicts the state of the art in rave culture, it calls for a juxtaposition with an earlier moment in rave culture, from northern England circa 1992.\u00a0 Try to give yourself the full 17 and 15 minutes to appreciate these respective videos. I&#8217;m still trying to figure out what the contrast in these two videos all means.\u00a0 If you have some thoughts, please share them below! Some initial observations: 1. The production values of the 2013 Miami footage are extremely high, possibly unprecedented in the genre of branded EDM video content, but don&#8217;t be misled into thinking that the Doncaster video is unedited and &#8220;raw.&#8221; Indeed, this Doncaster warehouse video is itself rather notorious (860,000 views as of today!).\u00a0 There&#8217;s definitely a self-conscious presentation of rave culture going on in both of these. 2. Calling this a history of rave is maybe a misnomer, since the journey of two decades doesn&#8217;t necessarily constitute a coherent narrative.\u00a0 Common signifiers notwithstanding \u2014 house music, youth, dancing, the drug MDMA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":1029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43691,43773,43762,43799,16,43644,8427,43800,43777,43696],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aesthetics","tag-collective-memory","tag-communion","tag-dance-music","tag-documentary","tag-festival","tag-miami","tag-northern-england","tag-nostalgia","tag-subculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}