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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.
Aimar Ventsel 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.
List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Transformation of East Germany: Wende and Socio-economic Framework for the Ossi-identityChapter 2. Punk Rock – Living MusicChapter 3. Ostpunk – Arbeitslos und stolz! (Unemployed and proud!)Chapter 4. One Law For Them, Another Law For Us: Punk Rock Moral EconomyChapter 5. Tolerated IllegalityChapter 6. Gender in Punk RockChapter 7. Punk Rock Territory – Construction of EnemiesConclusionReferencesIndex
“[This book] is really interesting, provides fascinating insights and presents questions for the scholarship and future study.” Matthew Worley, University of Reading