Aimar Ventsel

Punks and Skins United (eBook, ePUB)

Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Germany has one of the liveliest and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany, such as social segmentation, east-west tensions and local politics. Punk in eastern Germany is a reaction to the marginalization of the working class. As a cultural, social and economic niche, punks create their own controversial "substitute society" to compensate for their low status in mainstream society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789208610
• Artikelnr.: 60121690

Autorenporträt

Aimar Ventsel is a Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Ethnology in University of Tartu, Estonia. He was a founding member of the Siberia Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. From 2009 to 2013 he participated as a Research Associate of the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, in the project "Post-Socialist Punk: Beyond the double irony of self-abasement" where he conducted fieldwork in eastern Germany on punk and skinhead subculture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Transformation of East Germany: Wende and Socio-economic
Framework for the Ossi-identity
Chapter 2. Punk Rock - Living Music
Chapter 3. Ostpunk - Arbeitslos und stolz! (Unemployed and proud!)
Chapter 4. One Law For Them, Another Law For Us: Punk Rock Moral Economy
Chapter 5. Tolerated Illegality
Chapter 6. Gender in Punk Rock
Chapter 7. Punk Rock Territory - Construction of Enemies
Conclusion
References
Index