Rave scene goes under cover

Literally. We have a fairly new book called This Is Not a Rave: In the Shadow of a Subculture, which has never been checked out. It was sent off to have its paper cover laminated and hard-bound, but came back with one of those ugly blue library bindings. So now it looks like it could just as easily be a tome on kidney disease or accounting. And it's not classified in either the music section or the dance section. Instead, its call number is 305.235M124t, which puts it alongside general books about youth and growing up.

The author wrote her masters thesis on rave culture and teaches dance, but she lets the ravers speak for themselves. So inside the boring-looking covers are hundreds of comments from teens who tell of their experiences. It's their voices that make this book hard to put down.