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The primary aim of Outreach Ethnomusicology is to share fieldwork research. Below is a list of items that are included for view by members of the community.
Some of these articles are official documents of research which have been submitted to university departments, so they are set "not viewable" by the public, only registered members of outreach can view them. But, we welcome all sorts of articles within the interests of ethnomusicology, so please get in touch on outreachethnomusicology@gmail.com if you think you would like to contribute.
When we receive documents, we usually will have a full read through, and then reply with a formatted version for the internet, ready to publish. How much exposure or access you want for your work will depend on your own needs, and we will publish or unpublish anything upon request.
Thank you,
Patrick
Music and Recreational Drugs
I forgot about this experience I had and I only remembered it few months ago,
while being here in Ireland, after almost 12 years. I was surprised that this trend was
still in action here, as in Athens it was abandoned long time ago. Police made massive
arrests in rave parties, as they knew that these parties were a place for dealing drugs,
especially E. As a part of my interviews, I was curious to see how my friends in
Athens would react if I were to call them and tell them that this trend was still in
action here, even though it has been modernized.
Markos4 was surprised but he explained to me that this is a current trend in UK and Ireland. I asked him why people
attended the parties in Athens. He told me that some were coming out of curiosity
(like me), some because they wanted to take drugs, dance and be with other people
that they did not know and had never met before. He knew at least 50 people from the
party that I went to and I asked him what their backgrounds were. He said that all of
them either were working as waiters or waitresses, as sales assistants; some of them
left school, most of them coming from middle classes. None of them that he knew
was coming from an upper class background. I knew though that even rich people
were going there. I had seen in the news that many times, they had arrested people
who were coming from a “wealthy background”.
