Second Summer of Love
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The Second Summer of Love is a name given to the period in 1988-89 in Britain, during the rise of Acid House music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed ecstasy-fuelled rave parties. The term generally refers to both the summers of both 1988 and 1989 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. LSD was also widely available and popular again. The music of this era fused dance beats with a psychedelic, 1960s flavour, and the dance culture drew parallels with the hedonism and freedom of the Summer of Love in San Francisco two decades earlier. Similarities with the Sixties included fashions such as flares, Tie-dye and male long hair. The smiley logo is synonymous with this period in the UK.
Account of the Second Summer of Love
- Hanif Kureshi's novel The Black Album is set during this period.
- The Summer Of Rave, 1989 (2006) - Documentary by the BBC on the development of rave culture in the United Kingdom during the summer of 1989.
See also
- Summer of Love (the first, San Francisco, 1967)
- Madchester
- House music
- Alternative dance
