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Adventures in Wonderland: Decade of Club Culture (Paperback)

by Sheryl Garratt (Author)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; New edition edition (6 May 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747258465
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747258469
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 379,374 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Tracing a history that takes in the Stonewall riots of 1969, New York's gay clubs, the advent of disco (much reviled at the time), and the genesis of House in Chicago and Techno in Detroit, through to the British Northern Soul scene, Ibiza, and the vast illegal raves that terrified and appalled little England, Sheryl Garratt's Adventures In Wonderland is a surprisingly full account of the emergence and evolution of contemporary dance culture: surprising in that, given its 330-odd pages, Garratt manages to include interviews with many of the major players and with clubbers themselves, as well as her own personal reminiscences of many of the key events (post-1980) of this history. She also manages deftly to place this monumental transformation of youth culture in a carefully framed social context, whether in America, Ibiza, or Britain-- the result is a book that is both a sober social and historical document and a breathtakingly thrilling story.

The book is also valuable in its exploration of the often ambiguous politics of the club scene--its attraction was felt by socialist utopians and by right- wing libertarians, and its profits attracted viciously unpleasant interventions by the criminal underworld--and the even more ambiguous politics of drugs, especially Ecstasy. After describing the heady communality of early shared experiences, Garratt's final chapter begins with the legacy of the death of Leah Betts in 1995.

Adventures In Wonderland is a compellingly readable inheritor of Sarah Thornton's ground-breaking Club Cultures and Matthew Collin's Altered State: place it alongside Simon Reynolds' Energy Flash (which focuses more on the music itself) and, if you were there, wait for the heady rush of nostalgia; if you weren't, you can finally understand what was going on; and if you never understood, you can learn to love it now. --Burhan Tufail

Product Description
This work charts the rise of house music from its roots in the underground, black, gay scene in Chicago. It discusses how the "rave" scene has changed the face of youth culture, and addresses the issues of drugs and commercialization. There are interviews with key players and stars.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Feel the love, 15 Nov 1999
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Sheryl Garratt was there and felt the love (and in some cases, the hate)of the emerging club culture in the Uk of the late eighties. More to the point, she knows that if you want to know where you're going you've gotto know where you're at. Her encyclopaedic guide to the many roots of modern electronic dance music is one of the joys of this book, particularly her knowledge of Larry Levan's Loft years in NYC as well as the Chicago scene. Her evocation of the 1987 summer of love with all the acid teds, Centreforce and Spectrum:Theatre of Madness and all those Balearic beats takes me all the way back 12 years - it's almost as if it really DID happen because someone has written the account par excellence about my youth!
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5.0 out of 5 stars An emotional read, 26 Feb 2008
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I loved this book (but not as much as I loved the rave scene); I read it with a beating heart and a slight queezy sensation that if I read anymore I was going to ditch my now life of reason and wealth and live again to dance all night.

It was an amazing thing, that whole scene - a truly incredible youth culture that ran, in the most part, on love, respect, excitment, and 'togetherness' - and this book charts it all very elegantly and thoroughly. Only complaint was that it was not long enough.

Now, leave me to grow old soberly and gracefully and let only memories be indulged in. Thanks to all those who there when I was involved. Peace.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A detailed history of the scene, 21 Mar 1999
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This book will appeal to anyone who has visited a club in the last twenty years! A detailed and intelligent look at the origins and subsequent diversifying history of house music including intereviews and conversations with leading scene chengers. Well worth the money if you want to fill in the gaps and associate with the times
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