Folklore and Alternative Masculinities in a Rave Scene

Author

Anthony P. Avery

Publication Date

7-25-2005

Abstract

The rave is a late twentieth-century local and global ritualized entertainment that attracts mainly middle-class white youth and young adults to ecstatic trance dance and electronic music. Throughout the 1990s, raves were known as places of drug use, racial/class mixing, and sexual experimentation. With a DJ booth and a dance floor--sometimes in an abandoned warehouse, beach, or boat--the rave event fosters community and creativity. I argue that there is a transformation from ideal masculinity to alternative masculinities by bodily awareness through ecstatic trance dance facilitated by the ritual aspects of raving--the rave experience.

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

American Studies

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

American Studies

First Committee Member (Chair)

M. Jane Young

Second Committee Member

A. Gabriel Meléndez

Third Committee Member

Dorothy Chansky

Fourth Committee Member

Shep Jenks

Recommended Citation

Avery, Anthony P.. "Folklore and Alternative Masculinities in a Rave Scene." (2005). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds/49