Second Summer of Love

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This article is about the late 1980s in the UK. For a song of the same name about this period, see Danny Wilson (band).

The Second Summer of Love is a name given to the period in 1988-91 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. LSD was also widely available and popular again^{[citation needed]}. 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.

1 Account of the Second Summer of Love
2 References
3 Further reading
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Account of the Second Summer of Love

Hanif Kureshi's novel The Black Album is set during this period.

[edit] References

^ Reynolds, Simon (1998). Energy Flash. Picador. ISBN 0-330-35056-0.
^ Elledge, Jonn (2005-01-11). Stuck still. AK13. Retrieved on 2006-06-13., "By the end of 1988, the second summer of love was over"
^ History of Hard House. Retrieved on 2006-06-13."As the second "Summer of Love" arrived in 1989"

[edit] Further reading

Listed alphabetically by last name:

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.
Jane Bussmann-- Once in a Lifetime: The Crazy Days of Acid House and Afterwards, Virgin Books 1998. ISBN 0753502607
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.