I have began researching different elements which I am going to be including in my dissertation, I have used a range or sources on the internet including Wikipedia and BBC.
Rave: The term rave arose around the 50s, it was a term used to describe bohemian parties that were considered to be wild and usually involved alternative 'youths' and culture. The next generation of people came around the 60's and they were called hippies, then came the 70s groovers and then from there was the birth of the ravers in the 80s and 90s.
A rave is an organised party which involves dance, electronic music and DJ’S. "A rave is an organised dance party at a warehouse, forest, cave or other private property or public space, typically featuring performances by DJs, playing a seamless flow of electronic dance music."
"The expression 'freedom to party' is nothing new; you only need to cast an eye back to 1960s and 1970s Britain, when festivals at Glastonbury, Stonehenge and on the Isle of Wight heralded a new wave of large-scale anti-establishment entertainment. However, the UK's free party movement - which has evolved since the mid-1980s - has become a sub-culture synonymous with both freedom of expression and musical evolution." https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A3647649
Free Party: A free party is a party that is free from rules and restrictions in a typical, legal club. It is similar to the free festival movement; free festivals are usually formed by using a combination of activities, art and music. There is typically no charge and people are welcomed to get involved instead. They are usually on for more than one day and created by a community without ‘centralised control’ - “A centralised system is one in which a central controller exercises control over the lower-level components of the system directly or through the use of a power hierarchy”. A free party usually involves one or more sound systems, in which electronic music is played until the organisers either decide to go home or it is shut down by force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_party
I found an article on the BBC which was written by Jerry Chester, in may 2017. The free festival Castlemorton is known as 'The Rave That Changed the Law' according to the article. Castlemorton Common went down as the biggest rave held in history in the UK.
"What started out as a small free festival for travellers not only went down in history as the biggest illegal rave ever held in the UK, but resulted in a trial costing £4m and the passing of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.
The Criminal Justice Act: After the Castlemorton free festival the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was passed; The Criminal Jusice and Public order act is an act of parliament which was introduced by the Home Secretary of the Conservative Government, Michael Howard. The bill was introduced in November 1994 but it was first announced in 1993. The bill created a large number of changes to the law, the most notable being the reduction of raves and free parties, the act increased the penalties for any anti social behaviours and a restriction of existing rights. This caused an uprising, people took to the streets and began to protest.
The 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act allowed police to have the authority and power to stop any vehicle anywhere close by to a rave, they could stop any car if they were five miles near to the rave, they had the power to turn them away. The bill also allowed rules that targeted gatherings of more than 100 people that were listening to music at night. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-39960232
Advanced Technology: Before technology had advanced to the stage it is at now, people did not used to spread the news and directions of a rave/party by using mobile phones and social media, before it was by word of mouth and people would often go to phone boxes to phone a number at a certain time. People would often travel together by following one and other.
" Carl Loben, editor of DJ magazine, said in a world before mobile phones, the answering machine messages were key to spreading word about the raves.
"There was often just a message left on a party [phone] line that people could call after a certain time in the evening," he said.
"And it would say the rave is at [some location], meet at [this] junction of the motorway, or meet in the service station, and you'd go in convoy.""
"Clare Buchanan, who was on a gap year, heard about the festival when some of those en route stopped at the supermarket in Malvern where she worked."
On the BBC article I found, there is a video clip of the actual message giving out directions to the party site.
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