Building on from my chosen theme of culture, I decided to narrow down my essay to focus on subcultures. The notion of a group of people banding together to fight the mainstream has always interested me, and the opportunity to finally look more depth into this is one I wanted to investigate.
After a bit of further reading I focused in on the 'raver' culture from the late 1980s to early 1990s; while it's debatable whether this group was indeed a subculture, counterculture or a part of the mainstream is something that could be debated, however it's the people within the movement itself that interest me most.
Under the Tory reign, the ravers were painted as self absorbed delinquents, having massive messy parties with little regard for those around them, but how true is this notion? Did the ravers actually have anything to contribute to society or were they indeed just a group of 'party people'. This is what I want my essay to focus on.
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