Punks and Skins United

Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-860-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Anthropology of Europe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ventsel, Aimar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: The Punk Rock Moral Economy

Chapter 5. Tolerated Illegality

Chapter 6. Gender in Punk Rock

Chapter 7. Punk Rock Territory: The Construction of Enemies

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ventsel, Aimar
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.