Part one of term paper
It’s been ten years since the English seized on Detroit techno, Chicago house, and New York garage as the seeds of what’s generally agreed—over there, at least—to be the most significant music since punk, and they’re celebrating with a slew of historical studies. Simon Reynolds attempts to bridge the gap with "Generation Ecstasy," a ...

Part two of term paper
... phsycadelic," Reynolds, finds two predominant, contrasting strains: the search for gnosis, or spiritual revelation, and the desire to get completely out of it at the weekend. Setting these timeless traits in the context of the up-to-the-minute technology that made rave emblematic of its era—the fragmentary, fast-forward aesthetic, the flexible production and distribution network, the avoidance of personality and narrative in favor of sensation—he comes up with a portrait of hi-tech millennium ...