History of one of the most interesting phenomenon of the last decades. The Rave involves, every year, thousands of people in Europe and they don’t mention to stay.
The reality of the Rave explodes around the eighties in England. It started as reports toward the various uneasiness caused by the political world, by the social and economic uneasiness. Cuts of the welfare and the privatization of the services have caused social life battles and caused a strong degrade of the quality of life. From here different forms of culture take life as those of the squatters, of the ravers and of the travellers.
The squatters react to the lowering of the way of life of the uncomfortable classes, they occupy old buildings in certain districts of the greater cities; for example in 1993 in London 3000 occupations were recorded. The travellers respond instead to the dear-leases and to the disease of the metropolitan constructions adopting a nomadic life, often on board of trailers or truck-houses. In this way the net of the rave is born: illegal parties to which participate thousand of individuals, TAZ occupies zones temporarily; private areas and not, based on people’s meeting, music, drugs, life and trips.
The most amazing characteristic of the rave is that they has succeeded in creating a world and a language so particular to produce a real phenomenon of culture. The rave, an illegal aggregation often held out from the conventional places dedicated to the musical events extraneous to the normal commercial circuits. They are parties, fruit of autonomous organizations of groups of people in spaces not officially destined to such purpose. They looks for greater spaces out of the metropolis in order to create new technological parties: old factories, sheds or rural areas.
In England all of this happened at the end of the Eighties, when some disks coming from Detroit entered to belong to the circuit of London Dj. They started to experiment House and Techno evolutions of the old Soul and Funky music; they started to lift the level of the lower part, to increase the communication; to facilitate the share, in little time the rave became an affirmed and diffused reality.
In Italy the rave scene develops contrarily and many passages have interpreted with delay: the wave of the techno party explodes in 1990 as prolongation and expansion of the most vanguard places; only later the self-managed parties assume new values for their being a neo-primitive rite, shattering the rigid relationship map/territory installing in the spaces. So the illegal scene was born. The Sound Systems are not formal organizations, on the contrary, are free affiliations of people, while the parties are highly organized.
The ravers come to knowledge of a telephone number, some days before the event, through flyers, chat on the net, mailing list and forum. Some times before the beginning of the party the telephone number furnishes the address. So before the police succeeds in discovering with precision what is happening, on the place there are so o many people that the police cannot intervene anymore: the party has begun.
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