The thesis Rave, Music and Community: The Role of Collectives in the Context of Alternative Club Culture analyzes the value frameworks, approaches to community building, organizational strategies, and sustainability of collectives operating outside the dominant commercial scene. It explores how these collectives shape the landscape of contemporary alternative club culture in Poland and Czechia. The theoretical part defines the concepts of alternative club culture, the club, the key elements of club culture, community, and the collective. It also presents an overview of rave and rave etiquette, explains the concept of safer space, and describes the Polish and Czech club scenes. The practical part analyzes data from semi-structured interviews with ten members of eight collectives active within the Polish and Czech alternative scenes. It maps their founding motivations, political, social, and artistic missions, as well as their economic strategies.
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