Punks and Skins United: Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture

Ventsel, Aimar

ISBN 10 : 1789208602 ISBN 13 : 9781789208603

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2020

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789208602
• ISBN 13: 9781789208603
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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