Punks and Skins United

Punks and Skins United

Author: Aimar Ventsel
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Edition: 1
Published date: 2020
ISBN: 9781789208603

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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.

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