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This paper identifies and focuses on two areas of concern in the extant literature on youth culture in Canada. The first is that analyses of contemporary developments in Canadian youth culture tend not to consider the potential contributions of the recent `post-subculture' or `club- culture' stands of theory that have emerged out of Britain. The second is that there is a relative lack of empirical research on the `rave subculture' in Canada- a middle class culture of youth renowned for amphetamine drug-use, an interest in computer-generated music known as `Techno,' and attendance at all-night `rave' dance parties - a surprising absence considering the group's sizable membership, and the notoriety the group has received in popular media, government-related health reports, and scholarly work on youth in other countries. These concerns are addressed in this paper through a discussion of the post-subculture/clubculture tradition and its relationship to classical American and British theory, a report of results from an ethnographic study of the rave subculture in southern Ontario conducted from 1995-1998, and an analysis of the study's findings drawing on both traditional and contemporary perspectives on youth (presented as `five theses on resistance'). The paper concludes with a summary of the study's contributions to theory and research on youth culture both in Canada and generally, and with recommendations for future work in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]