Ravers

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€™s culture, the rave is sometimes said to be inspired by (or stolen from) the hippies of the 1960s, discoers of the 1970s, and punkers of the 1980s, according to McKusick (1992) and Smith (1992). Critics such as Garcia (1992), McKusick (1992), Tagg (1994), Hesmondhalgh (1995), and Zukeran (1995) debate whether raves are any type of social movement or the discos for the new millennium. As the name Generation X implies, American youth is sometimes characterized as the generic generation accused of simply copying earlier American counterculture or European contemporary culture.
The origins of Generation X’s raves are most directly rooted in the Acid House phenomenon in the UK in 1988, according to McKusick (1992), Smith (1992), Hucker (1994), and Lyttle and Montagne (1992). Acid Houses are clubs where kids can "drop acid" (take Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) and dance to music especially designed to heighten the drug effects. With more technologically advanced music and different drugs, Acid Houses began to transform into raves. Smith (1992) and...