Second Summer of Love
The Second Summer of Love is a name given to the period in 1988-89 in Britain, during the rise of acid house music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed MDMA ("Ecstasy")-fuelled rave parties.[1] The term generally refers to the summers of both 1988 and 1989[2][3] when electronic dance music and the prevalence of the drug MDMA fuelled an explosion in youth culture culminating in mass free parties and the era of the rave. LSD was also widely available and popular again[citation needed]. The music of this era fused dance beats with a psychedelic, 1960s flavour, and the dance culture drew parallels with the hedonism and freedom of the Summer of Love in San Francisco two decades earlier. Similarities with the Sixties included fashions such as Tie-dye. The smiley logo is synonymous with this period in the UK.
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[edit] Account of the Second Summer of Love
- Hanif Kureshi's novel The Black Album is set during this period.
- A number of works by Irvine Welsh, including The Acid House, are set in this period.
- The Summer Of Rave, 1989 (2006) - Documentary by the BBC on the development of rave culture in the United Kingdom during the summer of 1989.[4]
[edit] See also
- Summer of Love (the first, San Francisco, 1967)
- Madchester
- House music
- Alternative dance
[edit] References
- ^ Reynolds, Simon (1998). Energy Flash. Picador. ISBN 0-330-35056-0.
- ^ Elledge, Jonn (2005-01-11). "Stuck still". AK13. http://www.ak13.com/article.php?id=278. Retrieved 2006-06-13., "By the end of 1988, the second summer of love was over"
- ^ "History of Hard House". http://dancemusic.about.com/od/genres/a/HistHardHouse_2.htm. Retrieved 2006-06-13."As the second "Summer of Love" arrived in 1989"
- ^ "Jacques Peretti: History in the remaking". The Guardian (London). 2006-06-10. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jun/10/tvandradio.theguide. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
[edit] Further reading
Listed alphabetically by last name:
- Wayne Anthony-- Class of 88. London: Virgin Books, 1998. ISBN 0-7535-0240-2. A street-level account of the warehouse party/rave scene from one of the organisers at the time.
- Jane Bussmann-- Once in a Lifetime: The Crazy Days of Acid House and Afterwards, Virgin Books 1998. ISBN 0-7535-0260-7
- Matthew Collin-- Altered States: The Story of Ecstasy and Acid House London: 1997 : Serpent's Tail—How rave dances began in Manchester, England in the Summer of 1988 (the [second] "Summer of Love") and the aftermath.
- Sheryl Garratt-- Adventures In Wonderland: A Decade Of Club Culture Headline: 1999—The book chronicles the growth of house music & club culture, including a lot of detail on the 2nd Summer of Love
- Simon Reynolds-- Generation Ecstasy: into the world of techno and rave culture. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. ISBN 0-316-74111-6.
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