SECOND SUMMER OF LOVE

The 'Second Summer of Love' is a name given to the period in 1988 in Britain, during the rise of Acid House music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed Ecstasy-fuelled rave parties^[1]. The term generally refers to both the summers of 1988/9^[2]
[3] 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. It must also be noted that the drug L.S.D. was also widely available and popular again. The music of this era fused dance beats with a psychedelic, 60's flavour, and the dance culture drew parallels with the hedonism and freedom of the Summer of Love in San Francisco two decades earlier.

Contents

Accounts of the Second Summer of Love

References

Further reading

See also

External links

Accounts of the Second Summer of Love

Michael Winterbottom's film "24 Hour Party People" contains an interesting chronicle of some of the events that surround the "Second Summer of Love." It follows the careers of noted Manchester alternative groups New Order and the Happy Mondays during the peak of the movement.
Hanif Kureshi's novel "The Black Album" is set during this period.

References

1. Energy Flash, , Simon, Reynolds, Picador, 1998, ISBN 0-330-35056-0

2.
Stuck still , "By the end of 1988, the second summer of love was over"
3. History of Hard House "As the second "Summer of Love" arrived in 1989"

Further reading

★ 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.

★ 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.

See also

★ Summer of Love (the first, San Francisco, 1967)

★ Madchester

★ House_music

★ Alternative dance

External links

★ Ministry of Rock