The Canadian rave scene and five theses on youth resistance

Canadian Journal of Sociology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Wilson, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.2307/3341549     Document Type: Review

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