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off topic but still of interest to everyone:
Beneath the Mirror Ball
Every week around 100,000 young Australians head out to raves and dance
clubs - marathon parties driven by the incessant beat of electronic
dance music.
The rest of the community, more familiar with pub culture and live
bands, wonders: what's the attraction? What's to like about a scene
dominated by a monotonous "dooph dooph dooph" thumping out of samplers,
synthesisers and drum machines?
Plenty, say the devotees. And anyone open minded enough and willing
enough to explore the dance scene will discover an extraordinarily rich
vein of sub-culture.
Four Corners has spent the past two months delving into dance culture to
meet a generation defined by its own music, politics, technologies and
its own drugs. The program traces dance culture as the latest in a line
of youth movements, borrowing from but different from hippie culture of
the '60s and punk of the '70s and '80s.
Producer Lin Buckfield's program is in Four Corners' 40 year tradition
of exploring and reflecting emerging sub-cultures to the wider
community. Participants say the scene is all about equality.
- "It's totally pro-diversity."
- "We want to be in a group of people that want to love each
other... We are all sort of wanting that sort of connection with the
rest of the world but it just doesn't happen because the world is pretty
hard."
- "The greatest thing is a sense of living for the moment. As
humans we're normally not very good at that."
The ravers' unifying motto is PLUR - peace, love, unity and respect. But
they're no bland homogenous force. There are subtle but important
distinctions in the styles of music and these distinctions often define
which sub-faction a person identifies with.
For some, it is mostly a matter of having fun. At the other end of the
spectrum the music is an anthem to anti-materialist, anti-globalisation
politics.
Now corporations have begun marketing to this new expression of youth
culture. The result is that some dance culture is being dragged into the
mainstream, to the scorn of anarchic underground groups.
Lin Buckfield looks at the role of ecstasy and the dilemma it presents
for law enforcement and public health. Unlike alcohol, which fuels
violence in pubs and clubs, ecstasy produces waves of warmth and good
feeling. But it's believed to be potentially harmful to users in the
medium and long terms.
"Beneath the Mirrorball" - Four Corners Monday 4 June (repeated Tuesday)
shouts to nexus-6 for the quote
Beneath the Mirror Ball
Every week around 100,000 young Australians head out to raves and dance
clubs - marathon parties driven by the incessant beat of electronic
dance music.
The rest of the community, more familiar with pub culture and live
bands, wonders: what's the attraction? What's to like about a scene
dominated by a monotonous "dooph dooph dooph" thumping out of samplers,
synthesisers and drum machines?
Plenty, say the devotees. And anyone open minded enough and willing
enough to explore the dance scene will discover an extraordinarily rich
vein of sub-culture.
Four Corners has spent the past two months delving into dance culture to
meet a generation defined by its own music, politics, technologies and
its own drugs. The program traces dance culture as the latest in a line
of youth movements, borrowing from but different from hippie culture of
the '60s and punk of the '70s and '80s.
Producer Lin Buckfield's program is in Four Corners' 40 year tradition
of exploring and reflecting emerging sub-cultures to the wider
community. Participants say the scene is all about equality.
- "It's totally pro-diversity."
- "We want to be in a group of people that want to love each
other... We are all sort of wanting that sort of connection with the
rest of the world but it just doesn't happen because the world is pretty
hard."
- "The greatest thing is a sense of living for the moment. As
humans we're normally not very good at that."
The ravers' unifying motto is PLUR - peace, love, unity and respect. But
they're no bland homogenous force. There are subtle but important
distinctions in the styles of music and these distinctions often define
which sub-faction a person identifies with.
For some, it is mostly a matter of having fun. At the other end of the
spectrum the music is an anthem to anti-materialist, anti-globalisation
politics.
Now corporations have begun marketing to this new expression of youth
culture. The result is that some dance culture is being dragged into the
mainstream, to the scorn of anarchic underground groups.
Lin Buckfield looks at the role of ecstasy and the dilemma it presents
for law enforcement and public health. Unlike alcohol, which fuels
violence in pubs and clubs, ecstasy produces waves of warmth and good
feeling. But it's believed to be potentially harmful to users in the
medium and long terms.
"Beneath the Mirrorball" - Four Corners Monday 4 June (repeated Tuesday)
shouts to nexus-6 for the quote
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