Rave America: New School Dancescapes - Taschenbuch

For the last three years the sale of Technics 1200 turntables (used by DJs in-clubs) have outstripped those of electric guitars. American raves have gone from parties involving a few hundred people to commercially sponsored festivals drawing tens of thousands of fans. Clubland America is the first book devoted to this massive phenomenon. Through hundreds of interviews with DJs, recording artists, producers, promoters, drug lords, club celebrities, and nightworld casualties, this book takes readers into the deepest recesses of America's electronic dance culture, uncovering secrets and stories never before seen in print.Clubland America begins with a whirlwind tour of American club culture in the 70s and 80s, then plunges into the diverse sounds, sights, and histories of some of America's most vital rave territories: the deafening walls of sound of DJ Frankie Bones's earliest New York Storm raves; the acid-fuelled dreams of San Francisco's hippiefied Full Moon beach parties; Florida's DJ Icey and his factions of teenage breakdancers on Ecstasy; the dark Satanic techno rituals of the Midwest's Drop Bass Network; the twelve-hour post-Aids "muscle raves" of the cross-country gay circuit parties. Clubland examines both the dreams and nightmares of a pre-millennium country after dark.