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Author | : Ellen M. Bernhard |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2019-10-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1498599680 |
As a music scene, punk rock faces an unfortunate stereotype which often assumes an overwhelming presence of aggression and indifference. Using interviews and personal experience, Ellen M. Bernhard argues that contemporary punk scenes are more than just music and mohawks—they operate as sites of autonomous practice and networked communities where a tireless pursuit for social action is amplified by the platforms and forces that exist within the scene today. Contemporary Punk Rock Communities explores current trends within the punk rock community and concludes that today's scenes are spaces of autonomy and commitment where inclusiveness and diversity are prioritized. While self-sufficiency is preferred, scene-related practices are influenced and affected by the larger forces that exist within society today.
Author | : Ellen Melissa Bernhard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Communication |
ISBN | : |
Postsubcultural theory, a more recent school of thought in the study of youth cultures, grew in popularity in the late 90s and early 2000s as a response to the Birmingham School’s Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies’ assumptions of subcultures. The Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), a school of thought that arose from the UK after World War II, argued that youth cultures were maled-dominated and largely the result of class inequalities. In looking at today’s youth cultures, the characteristics presented by subcultural theorists are no longer the norm and subcultures are no longer seen as phenomena based entirely on class and gender. As a response, postsubcultural theory argues that contemporary subcultures are multi-faceted and diverse, and no longer meet the definition set forth by the Birmingham School. Using today’s current punk rock subculture a case study, this dissertation explores the findings of fifteen interviews with members of the contemporary punk rock community. These interviews were conducted with a variety of participants within the community such as fans, blog editors, and band members, which were conducted through two separate studies. Through the application of discourse analysis literature to the interview data, the dissertation investigates the ways in which the values and norms of the subculture are perpetuated and demonstrated. Excerpts from interviews support the postsubcultural notion that today’s punk rock subculture is not necessarily a working class response to the status quo, but instead, this subculture relies on its own set of norms and values that align more closely with the assumptions of postsubcultural theory. Common themes across these interviews were presented to support the notion that this specific community does, in fact, fit many of the qualities of a postsubculture. Though the contemporary punk rock community does, in fact, reflect many of the characteristics set forth by postsubcultural theory, the research conducted for this dissertation discovered some additional traits (such as the importance of diversity and early introduction of participants to the subculture) that further support the argument for more research of subcultures that exist today.
Author | : Michael H. Carriere |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-04-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 022672722X |
Introduction : a brief history of the recent past -- The (near) death and life of postwar American cities : the roots of contemporary placemaking -- The roaring '90s -- Into the twenty-first century -- Growing place : toward a counterhistory of contemporary placemaking -- Producing place -- Creating place -- Conclusion : Placemaking is for people.
Author | : Marta Marciniak |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1498501583 |
A Transnational History of Punk Communities in Poland is a multi-regional study of the history and contemporary condition of two Polish punk communities: the one in Warsaw and surrounding areas, and the Upper Silesian region: both rich in varied and sometimes conflicting punk traditions. The author, a self-identified member of the punk subculture formerly living and active in Warsaw, explores the various political, economic and social dimensions of the development of these unique communities and the meaning of the punk ethos for people across different age groups, genders, and life experiences, in relation to other subcultures, especially skinheads, and the broader society. An additional dimension, previously unexplored in scholarship, are the ties between these Polish punk communities and their counterparts in the United States and Canada. The personal connections between early bands and the long lasting transnational aspects of punk practices are shown to be an important factor in the shaping of punk attitudes across time and space. The economics of everyday punk life are discussed referring to contemporary scholarship on the subject, punk lyrics, and ethnographies which throughout the book illustrate selected themes and problems. This study includes insight about obscure yet foundational Silesian bands and their defiant, sardonic humor; about punk and anarchy, punk versus communism and the political opposition in the 1980s, punks’ attitudes toward the transformation of 1989, about being a punk girl on the streets of Warsaw or Wodzisław Śląski. Discover punk as an old subculture that cherishes its own past and remains an important alternative to mainstream cultural practices in a rapidly “Westernizing” and corporatizing country.
Author | : Eric James Abbey |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-03-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0739176064 |
Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk: Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music, edited by Eric James Abbey and Colin Helb,is a collection of writings on music that is considered aggressive throughout the world. From local underground bands in Detroit, Michigan to bands in Puerto Rico or across Europe, this book demonstrates the importance of aggressive music in our society. While other volumes seek to denigrate or put down this type of music, Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk forces the audience to re-read and re-listen to it. This category of music includes all forms that could be considered offensive and/or move the audience to become aggressive in some way. The politics and values of punk are discussed alongside the emerging popularity of metal and extreme hardcore music. Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk is an important contribution to the newest discussions on aggressive music throughout the world.
Author | : Konstantin Butz |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2023-02-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3839464064 |
For more than 40 years, hardcore and punk have promised to offer an alternative to what is perceived as the norm and the mainstream. Hardcore Research: Punk, Practice, Politics provides a comprehensive insight into some of the most active, outspoken, and widely received scholarly positions in the academic discourses on hardcore and punk and combines them with a variety of new and emerging voices. The book brings together scholars with personal ties to past and present hardcore and punk scenes, who present both insightful and critical examinations of the rich and varied histories of this subcultural phenomenon and its current reverberations at the intersection of cultural practice and academic research.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Laura Way |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 272 |
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ISBN | : 3031478231 |
Author | : Laura Way |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2020-09-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1839825685 |
Using in-depth interviews with punk women growing old disgracefully, Way explores how women construct punk identities. Reflecting on punk ‘then’ and ‘now’, they reveal the constraints punk women experience on their identities growing older, the complex relationship between appearance and dress, and the impact of social expectations around aging.
Author | : Jeff Hayton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2022-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192635859 |
Culture from the Slums explores the history of punk rock in East and West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. These decades witnessed an explosion of alternative culture across divided Germany, and punk was a critical constituent of this movement. For young Germans at the time, punk appealed to those gravitating towards cultural experimentation rooted in notions of authenticity-endeavors considered to be more 'real' and 'genuine.' Adopting musical subculture from abroad and rearticulating the genre locally, punk gave individuals uncomfortable with their societies the opportunity to create alternative worlds. Examining how youths mobilized music to build alternative communities and identities during the Cold War, Culture from the Slums details how punk became the site of historical change during this era: in the West, concerning national identity, commercialism, and politicization; while in the East, over repression, resistance, and collaboration. But on either side of the Iron Curtain, punks' struggles for individuality and independence forced their societies to come to terms with their political, social, and aesthetic challenges, confrontations which pluralized both states, a surprising similarity connecting democratic, capitalist West Germany with socialist, authoritarian East Germany. In this manner, Culture from the Slums suggests that the ideas, practices, and communities which youths called into being transformed both German societies along more diverse and ultimately democratic lines. Using a wealth of previously untapped archival documentation, this study reorients German and European history during this period by integrating alternative culture and music subculture into broader narratives of postwar inquiry and explains how punk rock shaped divided Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.