Rave Culture

Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience. The encyclopedia defines culture as the patterns of behavior and thinking that people living in social groups learn, create, and share. Culture distinguishes one human group from others. It also distinguishes humans from other animals. A people's culture includes their beliefs, rules of behavior, language, rituals, art, technology, styles of dress, ways of producing and cooking food, religion and political …

…almost uncannily perfect mesh. Aesthetic theory plays a central role in the rave movement; indeed it is the rave movement. Rave flyers are often a work of art themselves. The blending of different sounds to create a musical wall and combining that with lasers and strobes to create a perfectly synchronized, overwhelming space of light and sound is taking aesthetic theory to its limits. Pirate economics, as Simmons calls it, also plays a central role.