ABSTRACT
This article concentrates on the characteristics of the Techno sub-culture in Germany which marks a new era in the history of youth culture. The post-punk era of the mid-1980s was defined by a patchwork of fragmented sub-cultures that were clearly separated from each other-for example the punk, gothic, heavy metal and revival styles of 1960s and 1970s music and fashion. However, in the mid-1990s (1993-5) a pure dance style-Techno —became a mass movement for the first time, uniting nearly two million German youngsters and post-adolescents in the so-called ‘rave nation’, which has changed the shape, aesthestics and traditional structures of contemporary German youth culture.
