Second Summer of Love

Second Summer of Love

The Second Summer of Love is a name given to the period in 1988-91 in Britain, during the rise of Acid House music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed ecstasy-fuelled rave parties [cite book
last = Reynolds
first = Simon
year = 1998
title = Energy Flash
publisher = Picador
id = ISBN 0-330-35056-0 ] . The term generally refers to both the summers of 1988/9 [cite web
last = Elledge
first = Jonn
date = 2005-01-11
url = http://www.ak13.com/article.php?id=278
title = Stuck still
publisher = AK13
accessdate = 2006-06-13, "By the end of 1988, the second summer of love was over"] [cite web
url = http://dancemusic.about.com/od/genres/a/HistHardHouse_2.htm
title = History of Hard House
accessdate = 2006-06-13"As the second "Summer of Love" arrived in 1989"] when electronic dance music and the prevalence of the drug ecstasy fuelled an explosion in youth culture culminating in mass free parties and the era of the rave. LSD was also widely available and popular againFact|date=December 2007. The music of this era fused dance beats with a psychedelic, 1960s flavour, and the dance culture drew parallels with the hedonism and freedom of the Summer of Love in San Francisco two decades earlier. Similarities with the Sixties included fashions such as flares, Tie-dye and male long hair. The smiley logo is synonymous with this period.

Account of the Second Summer of Love

Hanif Kureshi's novel "The Black Album" is set during this period.

References

Further reading

Listed alphabetically by last name:
* Wayne Anthony-- "Class of 88". London: Virgin Books, 1998. ISBN 0-7535-0240-2. A gritty and realistic street-level account of the warehouse party/rave scene from one of the organisers at the time.
* Jane Bussmann-- "Once in a Lifetime: The Crazy Days of Acid House and Afterwards", Virgin Books 1998. ISBN 0753502607
* Matthew Collin-- "Altered States: The Story of Ecstasy and Acid House" London: 1997 : Serpent's Tail -- How rave dances began in Manchester, England in the Summer of 1988 (the [second] "Summer of Love") and the aftermath.
* Sheryl Garratt-- "Adventures In Wonderland: A Decade Of Club Culture" Headline: 1999 -- The book chronicles the growth of house music & club culture, including a lot of detail on the 2nd Summer of Love
* Simon Reynolds-- "Generation Ecstasy: into the world of techno and rave culture". New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. ISBN 0-316-74111-6.

ee also

* Summer of Love (the first, San Francisco, 1967)
* Madchester
* House music
* Alternative dance

External links

* [http://www.ministryofrock.co.uk/TheSecondSummerOfLove.html Ministry of Rock]


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