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Characteristics and social representation of ecstasy in Europe - Irefrea

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ATTENDING ‘RAVES’ (%)COIMBRA MODENA NICE PALMA UTRECHTOften <strong>and</strong> very <strong>of</strong>ten 45,2 9,5 29,6 5,9 20,3The denom<strong>in</strong>ation “rave” is neither a term, nor an event, equally <strong>in</strong>troduced <strong>in</strong>different countries. Raves <strong>of</strong>fer is different from one country to other. In somecountries, they are not up to date or there are other possibilities that make raves lessnecessary as places for meet<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> danc<strong>in</strong>g with other young people. In our study, wenotice that Nice, Utrecht <strong>and</strong> specially Coimbra show high percentages <strong>in</strong> comparisonwith other countries. In Coimbra they are two fixed raves <strong>in</strong> may <strong>and</strong> august <strong>and</strong> thanthe others depend <strong>of</strong> the organisers. Sometimes the Coimbra ravers attend party ravesorganised <strong>in</strong> neighbourhood towns. It is Palma de Mallorca the place where peopleattend less <strong>of</strong>ten “raves”.MUSICAL PREFERENCES (% on total <strong>of</strong> responses)*COIMBRA MODENA NICE PALMA. UTRECHTRock 13,9 17,9 10,1 16,7 12,9Pop 13,0 10,5 08,3 14,8 14,3House-bacalao 01,3 08,9 10,2 07,6 08,4Hardcore 04,0 05,0 05,6 03,6 01,6Hardcore-house 09,9 03,0 08,7 03,3 02,4Mellow-house 05,4 01,3 04,3 02,3 12,0Punk 02,3 05,1 02,7 05,0 04,9Salsa/merengue 04,4 04,4 04,9 06,2 02,8Heavy 03,7 03,8 01,7 05,5 03,4Melodic 04,0 01,2 04,2 06,9 4,6Hip-hop 09,7 06,3 07,3 01,9 05,9Reggae 12,2 08,4 10,4 09,9 06,9Rap 03,4 05,9 06,3 01,1 03,3Funky 03,3 10,6 08,3 06,0 08,8Others 09,4 07,5 06,9 09,0 07,7• Each <strong>in</strong>dividual could choose a maximum <strong>of</strong> five answers.This item is extremely important because we all know the close relationship amongmusic, youth <strong>and</strong> drug use. We can see “rock” <strong>and</strong> “pop” are the most popular k<strong>in</strong>ds <strong>of</strong>music for young people <strong>in</strong> different countries. Besides, “house” music occupies also aquite relevant position when we put together its different variations. House music istraditionally associated with designer drugs use, it is the most popular dance music <strong>of</strong>the 90’s.The name “acid house” comes from disc-jockeys slang. It seems that this k<strong>in</strong>d <strong>of</strong>music had its orig<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> Ibiza or Valencia, <strong>in</strong> Spa<strong>in</strong> (Guarnieri, 1997; Lyttle <strong>and</strong>55

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