EXIST TO RESIST - A HISTORY OF DIY RAVE, FESTIVAL AND PROTEST CULTURE
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Regular 247 contributor, Matt Smith has launched Exist to Resist – a social history book of born out of a love for UK’s rave, sound system, and festival culture from images made between 1989 and 1997. In the early 1990s, the UK Government finally decided to legislate against the popularity of raves, protest, free parties and festivals after over a decade of targeting that social phenomenon for persecution – and Matt was there documenting key moments over that period. In the 90’s, after over a decade and a half of Conservative government a great culture of resistance and opposition had arisen and become embedded within British society. Acid house and rave served as the musical soundtrack that united all of those disparate sub-cultural tribes in one mission; to gather, dance and celebrate together for free. Moving forward to 2017, it is now 23 years since Government acted to prohibit and enclose that cultural freedom in law and it is time to tell that []
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