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Repeating beats : the return of rave, memories of joy and nostalgia between the afterglow and the hangover
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Davidson, Joe P. L. (2023) Repeating beats : the return of rave, memories of joy and nostalgia between the afterglow and the hangover. Memory Studies, 16 (2). pp. 421-434. doi:10.1177/17506980221101115 ISSN 1750-6980.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17506980221101115
Abstract
The British rave scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s is widely remembered as a moment of elation and bliss. Contemporary cultural representations position the Second Summer of Love of 1989 – when thousands of young people attended illegal parties, experienced the hypnotic beats of house music and had their first brush with the drug ecstasy – as an object of nostalgia. I argue that rave nostalgia is suspended between two dispositions: the afterglow and the hangover. Whereas the former involves happiness, reversibility and continuity, the latter is defined by melancholia, irreversibility and discontinuity. On this basis, I consider two texts that creatively combine these dispositions in their evocation of rave: the music video for The Streets’s ‘Weak Become Heroes’ and Jeremy Deller’s documentary Everybody in the Place. Finally, I assess how the euphoria associated with rave nostalgia helps to augment and advance the recent turn to joy in memory studies.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman M Music and Books on Music > M Music P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Rave culture -- Great Britain, House music, Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century, Documentary films -- History and criticism, Popular music -- History and criticism, Nostalgia, Music and youth -- Great Britain, Music videos -- History and criticism, Music -- Social aspects -- Great Britain | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Memory Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1750-6980 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | April 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 16 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 421-434 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/17506980221101115 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 January 2023 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 January 2023 | ||||||||
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