This is a collection of in-depth and reflective pieces by activists and other key figures in "DiY culture", who tell their own stories and histories. The book argues that popular protest of the 1990s is characterized by a culture of immediacy and direct action. From the environmentalist to the video activist, the raver to the road protester, the neo-pagan to the anarcho-capitalist, the authors demonstrate how the counterculture of the 1990s offers a positive alternative to insitutionalized unemployment and the restricted freedoms and legislated pleasures.
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George McKay is an academic and writer on radical culture who teaches at the University of Central Lancashire. His previous books include Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties, also from Verso.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By stan trav
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a great book for those who remember the times..and a must read for those who dont..covers the subject matter brilliantly..from the raves to the tree dwellers..and all those who protested the killing of freedom.its all here!!
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I was not so blown away by this book that I felt the need to write a review of it, although I thought it was a very good description of British 1990s protest and party...Yes the book describes Es and the rave movement, but only as one part of the DIY movement of the 1990s, not as its main influence. Nor does the book describe drug taking as a driving force of the alternative movement..the previous governments attempts to criminalise the right to protest contributed in many ways to subsequent DIY protests and parties...The raves in the book have never been held the Astoria (or any similar club) they were usually held in illegally squatted warehouses. The idea being that people could avoid the mainstream controlled (and expensive) club scene, contributing not only to an alternative counter culture but also music, art and anything else people wished to create.
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Being a yank, I found the chapters in this book devoted to breathless polemics on the rave "movement" and the importance of ecstasy as a critical force in shaping a society devoted to Peace and Love(TM) suspiciously similar to the claims of Tim Leary et al of the magical powers of LSD. Here in the colonies, ravers are generally mid/upperclass kids with too much free time who get kicks in expressions of mass vapidity. Walking around stoned ain't gonna change the world, and The Man with The Gun won't take you seriously if you can't walk straight or operate a motor vehicle. The claims of the new disco prophets aside, americans take drugs to get f'd up. I would resent the efforts of a self-proclaimed Voice Of A Generation to portray my alcohol abuse as some sort of revolutionary statement. I have spent zero time in any british rave clubs (when i was in london i walked up to the door of the Astoria, paused, reconsidered my plans, and continued walking to the liquor store down the street), but I have a feeling that the scene is pretty much the same, granted with subtle differences due to the admittedly more restictive Brit class system. Intoxicants do not a movement make. The rest of the book, dealing with specific British DIY methods and campaigns, were a more inspiring. The superficiality of the middle of the book, however, tainted the whole enterprise. If this review seems a bit muddled, forgive me. Like most of the rest of America, I am at this moment suffering a severe Saturday morning hangover.
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