"House and techno on the reef scene were associated with drug culture"

Is there anything less politically charged than a person dancing with a pumping fist at a Swedish House Mafia concert? Electronic dance music is an established part of music Sweden today - it was when discos came from the USA in the 1970s and the reef music in the 90s. Social anthropologist Anna Gavanas has in her new book From Diskofeber to Rejvhysteri investigated the moral panic that prevailed during this period.

- When the house moved out into the woods and in factory premises and was played on a reef together with techno, it was associated with drug culture. This happened in the middle of a very intense phase of the political consensus that existed around zero tolerance in Sweden, says Anna Gavanas in the Morning Study.

See Anna Gavanas tell us more in the clip above.