A Punk Public Sphere

A Punk Public Sphere
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Total Pages: 51
Release: 2018
Genre: Electronic books
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This research analyzes the punk "public sphere," highlighting the punk bands that use the expressive space to politicize the punk community. Punk is typically associated with fast music, brightly colored mohawks, facial piercings, a nihilistic attitude, and if considered political, only encompassing the punk subgenre itself. Despite this broad narrative, the punk community overall is far more multifaceted. The punk community offers a vibrant space wherein members use their place in the community for political organization and social activism. Based on 12 semi-structured interviews with members of punk bands, this study examines participants' active involvement in their music and the punk "public sphere" for politicizing punk itself. By attending punk concerts, where participating bands played live music to an audience, and utilizing open coding for the coding process of interviews, punk music and the public sphere are brought together. This research brings Jurgen Habermas' concept of the public sphere to contemporary punk music to better understand the politicizing processes of the punk musical subgenre. Findings suggest that through the "punk public sphere" punk bands use art, literature, and dialogue for the specific purposes of the politicization of punk rock.

Punk Rock and the Politics of Place

Punk Rock and the Politics of Place
Author: Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2014-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135022267

This book is an ethnographic investigation of punk subculture as well as a treatise on the importance of place: a location with both physical form and cultural meaning. Rather than examining punk as a "sound" or a "style" as many previous works have done, it investigates the places that the subculture occupies and the cultural practices tied to those spaces. Since social groups need spaces of their own to practice their way of life, this work relates punk values and practices to the forms of their built environments. As not all social groups have an equal ability to secure their own spaces, the book also explores the strategies punks use to maintain space and what happens when they fail to do so.

Communism's Public Sphere

Communism's Public Sphere
Author: Kyrill Kunakhovich
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2023-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501767062

Communism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discussions shifted to spaces of art: theaters, galleries, concert halls, and youth clubs. Kyrill Kunakhovich shows how these venues turned into sites of dialogue and contestation. While officials used them to spread the communist message, artists and audiences often flouted state policy and championed alternative visions. Cultural spaces therefore came to function as a public sphere, or a rare outlet for discussing public affairs. Focusing on Kraków in Poland and Leipzig in East Germany, Communism's Public Sphere sheds new light on state-society interactions in the Eastern Bloc. In place of the familiar trope of domination and resistance, it highlights unexpected symbioses like state-sponsored rock and roll, socialist consumerism, and sanctioned dissent. By examining nearly five decades of communist rule, from the Red Army's arrival in Poland in 1944 to German reunification in 1990, Kunakhovich argues that cultural spaces played a pivotal mediating role. They helped reform and stabilize East European communism but also gave cover to the protest movements that ultimately brought it down.

World Languages and Cultures in the Public Sphere

World Languages and Cultures in the Public Sphere
Author: Margit Grieb
Publisher: BrownWalker Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2024-05-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 159942648X

The essays in this volume represent a cross-section of current scholarship examining the implications of the concept of Öffentlichkeit (the public sphere), originally conceived by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas in the early 1960s, in his socio-historical study Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit (The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere). The contributions herein add to the discourse surrounding an evolving public sphere using diverse perspectives to explore a variety of contexts in which this concept appears and reappears. For almost forty years, the Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures and Film (SCFLLF) has been a premier platform for the discussion and dissemination of the latest scholarship in the Humanities, with emphasis on non-English area studies. The current volume showcases some of the most impactful papers originally presented at the 25th SCFLLF, held in Asheville, North Carolina, in March of 2023.

Homegirls in the Public Sphere

Homegirls in the Public Sphere
Author: Marie "Keta" Miranda
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0292778570

Girls in gangs are usually treated as objects of public criticism and rejection. Seldom are they viewed as objects worthy of understanding and even more rarely are they allowed to be active subjects who craft their own public persona—which is what makes this work unique. In this book, Marie "Keta" Miranda presents the results of an ethnographic collaboration with Chicana gang members, in which they contest popular and academic representations of Chicana/o youth and also construct their own narratives of self identity through a documentary film, It's a Homie Thang! In telling the story of her research in the Fruitvale community of Oakland, California, Miranda honestly reveals how even a sympathetic ethnographer from the same ethnic group can objectify the subjects of her study. She recounts how her project evolved into a study of representation and its effects in the public sphere as the young women spoke out about how public images of their lives rarely come close to the reality. As Miranda describes how she listened to the gang members and collaborated in the production of their documentary, she sheds new light on the politics of representation and ethnography, on how inner city adolescent Chicanas present themselves to various publics, and on how Chicana gangs actually function.

Rockin Las Americas

Rockin Las Americas
Author: Deborah Pacini Hernandez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2011-12-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0822972557

Every nation in the Americas—from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba—has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin’ Las Américas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil, the Andes, and the Southern Cone as well as among Latinos in the United States. The contributors include experts in music, history, literature, culture, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing rockeros and rockeras. The multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives they bring to the topic serve to address a broad range of fundamental questions about rock in Latin and Latino America, including: Why did rock become such a controversial cultural force in the region? In what ways has rock served as a medium for expressing national identities? How are unique questions of race, class, and gender inscribed in Latin American rock? What makes Latin American rock Latin American? Rockin’ Las Américas is an essential book for anyone who hopes to understand the complexities of Latin American culture today.

Media and Public Spheres

Media and Public Spheres
Author: R. Butsch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230206352

Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia,this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internetto reveal both how media structure public spheresand how people use media to participate in the public sphere.

Outside the "Comfort Zone"

Outside the
Author: Tatiana Klepikova
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2020-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110604175

Traditionally, privacy studies have focused on the liberal democratic societies of the global West, whereas non-democratic contexts have played a marginal role in the discussion of the private and public spheres, not in the least because of the political stances of the Cold War era. This volume offers explorations of highly diversified performances and discourses of privacy by various actors which were embedded into the culturally, economically, and politically specific constructions of late socialism in individual states of the Warsaw Pact. While the experience of socialism varied across the Bloc, there were also some reactions to socialism and some reverse responses of socialist regimes to these reactions that one can trace through all states. Contributions to this volume take us across the Eastern Bloc and beyond it—from the Soviet Union, into late socialist Poland, Romania, and East and West Germany. While looking at specific countries, they provide a glimpse into a broader perspective that reaches beyond the borders of individual late socialist states. Together, these articles document a palette of paradigms of the construction and transformation of the private spheres that overcame the national borders of individual states and left an imprint across the Eastern Bloc, thereby contributing to rethinking Cold War rhetoric in regard to these states.

Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere

Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere
Author: Katalin Cseh-Varga
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2018-02-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351757075

Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions, each chapter explores the particular, critical roles that this work assumed under censorial circumstances. The artistic networks of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, East Germany and Czechoslovakia are discussed with a particular focus on the discourses that shaped artistic practice at the time, drawing on the methods of Performance Studies and Media Studies as well as more familiar reference points from art history and area studies.

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader
Author: Donald E. Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2012-06-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135719446

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by two of the leading scholars in the field and presents: individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts essays grouped by key subject areas including Genealogies, Sex, Temporalities, Kinship, Affect, Bodies, and Borders writings by major figures including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, David M. Halperin, José Esteban Muñoz, Elizabeth Grosz, David Eng, Judith Halberstam and Sara Ahmed. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader is a field-defining volume and presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to Queer Studies.