While I can't say that I'm totally familiar with Joy Division as an oeuvre, I've always heard that it, and following it New Order, are amongst those credited with pioneering, in inchoate form, the UK underground/rave scene which manifested in the late 80's and early 90's (before it became legal and "legitimate", a commodity to be expolited and finally petered out in the late 90's/early00's, when drugging and clubbing became unfashionable).
I have not seen "24 Hour Party People", but I believe that it deals with just this issue.
It is interesting that punk in the mid 70's, seen as "socially deviant" genre in the UK by "authority" at the time, was followed by post-punk (which is where Joy Division fits into the picture, I take it?) and new wave in the late 70's, which continued throughout the 80's and culminated in the underground rave movement of the late 80's and early 90's, also seen by some at the time as "socially deviant". Is this "genealogy" correct? I do stand corrected...
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