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Youth, Drugs, and Nightlife (Paperback, New)
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Youth, Drugs, and Nightlife (Paperback, New)
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From marijuana and jazz, to amphetamines and punk, drugs and
popular music have been inextricably tied together. Today the music
is electronic and ecstasy and party drugs are the drugs of choice.
In Ecstasy and Raves, Hunt, an anthropologist, and Evans, a
sociologist, explore the attraction of the scene and the drugs to
young people today. Using information from over 300 in-depth
interviews with ravers, DJ's and promoters, the authors examine the
social and ethnic background of the ravers and clubbers, their
initial involvement with the scene, their experiences of the drugs
and their changing tastes in music. They show how the scene is made
up of many different social groupings based not just on social
class, gender or ethnicity, but also length of time in the scene,
choice of drugs, styles of dancing and types of music. Hunt and
Evans discover that although ravers share many commonalities they
are not identical and do not speak with a single voice. Through
them, we learn of candy ravers, jaded ravers, newbies, old school
ravers, veterans, house heads and trance heads. In contrast to the
often stereotypical views of about young drug users as naive and
poorly informed, the authors explore the sources of information
used by ravers, the precautions they take both prior and after
using and the controls they impose on each others' use. We learn
about their frustrations with recent legislation controlling raves
and clubs, their anger at the increasing commercialization of the
scene, and their general skepticism about official pronouncements
on the dangers of ecstasy and other drugs.
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