Matthew Collin Livres

Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the acid house 'summer of love', it has gone from subculture to the global mainstream. Does it still have the same power to inspire?From the pleasure palaces of Ibiza and Las Vegas to 'new frontiers' like Shanghai and Dubai, raving is now a multi-million-dollar business. But there are still hardcore believers upholding its DIY ethos - the techno idealists of Berlin and Detroit and the queer subcults of New York, the post-apartheid party people of South Africa and the outlaw techno travellers of France.In Rave On, Matthew Collin travels the world to experience these unique scenes first-hand, talk to the key players and hear the story of how dance culture went global - and find out if its maverick spirit can survive its own success.

"An important addition to youth literature."— Guardian "Fascinating . . . great journalism, using eye-level experience and dispassionate research to give the reader a rare insight."— Time Out This is the inspiring story of the youth movements and revolutions of the former Communist Eastern Europe. Participants tell how they created popular resistance movements, defying threats, violence, and mass arrests in an attempt to change their countries and the world. Matthew Collin 's previous books include Altered State and Guerrilla Radio . He lives in Tbilisi, Georgia.

This is a book about a group of Belgrade’s young idealists and their pirate radio station B92, who began with the naive desire to simply play music, but ended up facing two wars, economic sanctions, violent police and government crackdowns, the attentions of armed gangsters and neo-Nazi politicians, and ultimately became the leaders of an opposition movement forced into exile. Before Milosevic was finally ousted in October 2000, B92 would be shut down and resume broadcasting four times as, through an inspired combination of courage, imagination, and black humor—and a playlist, from The Clash’s “White Riot” to Public Enemy’s rap manifesto, “Fight the Power,” which in sound and spirit, echoed the street fighting in which they sometimes took part—it somehow persisted in disseminating the truth. Matthew Collin knows the founders of the station well and has had extraordinary access to the key personalities and their archives. He first reported on the station as part of a feature on Belgrade’s mass street protest in 1996. The book is based on in-depth, first person interviews and exhaustive background research. “Matthew Collin captures the conviction of a generation whose culture and identity were under siege....”—Independent on Sunday

Thrilling reportage from raves, riots and rebellions documents how rebels with a cause use music as a force for change.

An expansive and illuminating account of the development of electronic music in the UK, told with passionate enthusiasm by Matthew Collin, the critically- acclaimed author of Altered State and Rave On.