Punks and Skins United : : Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture / / Aimar Ventsel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Ventsel, Aimar,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology of Europe ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1 THE TRANSFORMATION OF EAST GERMANY Wende and the Socioeconomic 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 Th e Punk Rock Moral Economy --; CHAPTER 5 TOLERATED ILLEGALITY --; CHAPTER 6 GENDER IN PUNK ROCK --; CHAPTER 7 PUNK ROCK TERRITORY Th e Construction of Enemies --; CONCLUSION --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789208610; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789208610?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Aimar Ventsel.

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.