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Rave America: New School Dancescapes by Mireille Silcott

by D. R. Peak

Much like punk, rave disciples argue over whether it was developed on America's shining shores first or across the sea in England's dance halls. With rave, the answer is the same as punk's: Neither. Both punk and rave mostly got their initial start in the same place, namely, New York City.

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