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This 5 page paper discusses Robin Sylvan’s book “Trance Formation,” an examination of rave culture, and argues that his analysis of it as a religious movement is flawed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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rave scene seem to find religious meaning in it. In fact, for many of them, it has become a substitute for religion. But is it a new religious movement? Although
his thinking is original and provocative, Robin Sylvan, in Trance Formation, does not convincingly argue that rave culture constitutes a new religious movement. Discussion Sylvan starts his book with a
detailed description of the beginnings of the rave culture. For those who dont know, "rave" culture grew out of disco; it is characterized by large crowds - several thousand people
may show up -- of people dancing for hours to electronic music with a heavy beat; the experience is often enhanced by taking drugs like ecstasy (Sylvan, 2005). Sylvan begins
by explaining the origins of rave culture as a sort of mutation of disco (2005). Disco originally came out of gay, Latino and African-American clubs and moved into the mainstream;
when the craze was over it went underground again, back to its origins, where it changed slightly into the electronic music now used at raves (Sylvan, 2005). Sylvan was
working in a record store when the film Saturday Night Fever was released; and it ignited his hatred of disco (Sylvan, 2005). Twenty-five years later, at his first rave, he
found himself listening to this same stuff again, and hating it just as much (Sylvan, 2005). He found it impossible at first to let go of his previous judgments of
disco and enjoy the music (Sylvan, 2005). But suddenly, he "got" the music and went on to dance ecstatically for hours with a huge smile on his face (Sylvan, 2005).
Then he says: "From that moment on, the music and rhythms somehow got deep into my body, and ... I have developed an almost physiological need to dance to electronic
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