1. Berliner Punk-Symposium

Von manchen Veranstaltungen erfährt man erst im Nachhinein und ärgert sich, dass einem die Entscheidung, ob man vielleicht teilgenommen hätte oder nicht, abgenommen wurde. Ja, Punk und Post-Punk sind inzwischen Themen für die Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften in dem großen Feld der Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies gibt es bereits seit Jahrzehnten und beackert ein weites Feld von kulturellen Phänomenen der Gesellschaft. Wobei bei anglo-amerikanischen Wissenschaftler*innen wesentlich weniger Berührungsängste gegenüber Phänomenen, die im deutschsprachigen Raum eher nicht zur Hochkultur zählen, also Rock- und Popmusik, Mode, Schundliteratur und Kinofilme, bestehen. Dementsprechend gibt es verschiedene englischsprachige Fachzeitschriften, in denen deutsche Themen nur am Rande auftauchen. Eine regelmäßige deutschsprachige Publikationsreihe zu Rock- und Popmusik ist mir nicht bekannt, die Halbjahresschrift Pop Kultur und Kritik surft quer durch alle kulturellen Phänome. Vielleicht könnte man die testcard beiträge zur popgeschichte als eine solche Publikationsreihe ansehen, von regelmäßiger Erscheinungsweise seit dem Tod des Mitbegründers Martin Büsser kann aber keine Rede mehr sein. Und die Reihe Rock Session bei rororo zwischen 1977 und 1985 war zwar verdienstvoll, aber eher journalistisch angelegt. Dabei gibt es grundlegende Werke schon seit Jahrzehnten wie z.B. Jugendkultur und Rockmusik - Soziologie der englischen Musikszene von Simon Frith, erschienen 1981 bei rororo (wo damals sehr viele Taschenbücher zum Thema Rock- und Popmusik erschienen). Daneben gibt es von Florian Tennstedt das Buch Rockmusik und Gruppenprozesse Aufstieg und Abstieg der Petards aus dem Wilhelm Fink Verlag München von 1979 (damals entdeckt in der Stadtbibliothek Hannover) und Rock People oder Die befragte Szene von Rainer Dollase, Michael Rüsenberg und Hans J. Stollenwerk, erschienen 1974 als Fischer-Taschenbuch (steht bei mir ungelesen im Regal, ich kann also nur Vermutungen über die Relevanz anstellen). Bücher zu Punk gibt es einige – ich muss mal eine kleine Bibliografie zusammenstellen – aber nicht viele sind mehr als nur journalistisch, soll heißen haben neben dokumentarischen Inhalten auch analytisches Potential. An älteren Werken fallen mir da nur Punk: Versuch der künstlerischen Realisierung einer neuen Lebenshaltung von Hollow Skai (1981), Die heiligen Narren. Punk 1976-1986 von Thomas Lau (1992) und Punks in der Großstadt Punks in der Provinz von Bruno Hefeneger, Gerd Stüwe und Georg Weigel (1993) ein. Eigentlich gehört Geschichte wird gemacht. Die Neue Deutsche Welle. Eine Epoche deutscher Popmusik von Barbara Hornberger (2011) auch in diese Reihe, auch wenn Punk nicht der Schwerpunkt ist.<(p>

Aber zurück zum Punk-Symposium. So wie in der Politik jetzt die Generation derjenigen, die mit Rock- und Popmusik aufgewachsen ist, am Ruder ist und dementsprechend einen etwas anderen Stil als Konrad Adenauer und Zeitgenossen pflegt, so habe Mitglieder der Punk-Subkultur ihren Weg in die Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften gefunden und scheuen sich nicht ihre privaten Erfahrungen und Insiderwissen zum Inhalt ihrer Arbeit zu machen. Ein erster Hinweis darauf war die Anthologie Punk in Deutschland. Sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, herausgegeben von Philipp Meinert und Martin Seeliger (2013). Und jetzt das 1. Berliner Punk-Symposium, das jedoch nicht nur deutschsprachige Beiträge hatte, sondern international besetzt war. Und das waren die Beiträge:

• "Self-destruction" of lyrics in punk rock: from "sloganization" to "performative" vocal delivery (Sangheon Lee, Université Gustave Eiffel, France)
• Vom Zeckenklatschen zum "Punkrock aus dem Volksempfänger" - Rezeption und Wandel von Punk in der rechten Rockszene (Philipp Meinert, Germany)
• Mapping the Political Meanings of Punk after the 2010s: Songs of Boredom and Despair from Spain and Turkey (Selin Yagci, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
• Scripting a Punk Feminist Revolution: The Political Imagination in the Early Songs of Pussy Riot (2011-2012) (Nadezda Petrusenko, Umeå University, Sweden)
• Polish Punk Isn't Dead, It's Just Old and Drunk: Fluidity and Fragmentation (Caroline Skwara, Stanford University, USA)
• Deutschpunk across the Border: Czech perspective (Ondrej Daniel, Univerzita Karlova / Charles University, Czechia)
• Bowie, X-Ray Spex und Maxine Feldmann: Historisierungsprozesse und Archivierungspraktiken des Queeren im Punk (Kathrin Dreckmann, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
• Punk Propaganda: Artistic strategies of subversion using media and language (Marie Arleth Skov, Curator, Art Historian, Writer)
• DIY-Punk als reale Utopie? Utopische Affekte im Alltagsverstand von Punx // DIY-Punk as real utopia? Punx, utopian affect and common sense based practice (Georg Gläser, Universität zu Köln, Germany)
• Sonic Landscapes of a gray city: Berlin, Cold War and Post-Punk (Luiz Alberto Moura, University Minho, Portugal)
• We're not gonna take it anymore - Thatcherism, Punk and post-Punk (Ryan Summerbell, Teesside University, UK)
• Spaces for Living? "Revol" Between the Politics of Appropriation and Culture of Destruction (Yifan Xia, Columbia University, USA)
• Die Tödliche Doris spricht / The Deadly Doris talks (An Paenhuysen, independent curator and art writer)
• Extrafall Rosa Extra oder Früh-Punk und Underground-Poesie in der DDR (Alexander Pehlemann, ZONIC, Autor, Kurator)

Es bleibt abzuwarten, ob es einen Tagungsband geben wird, bis dahin geben die Abstracts unter punk-symposium.de einen Eindruck davon, was man versäumt hat.

PS: Ja ich weiß, es gab mal im Kassel einen Punkkongress im September 2004, aber hat der irgendwelche Spuren hinterlassen? Die Webseite punk2004.de liefert leider keine relevanten Informationen.

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Punk & Post-Punk (Studies)

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 1, Issue 1, 2012
EDITORIAL by PHILIP KISZELY and ALEX OGG
Negotiating the Punk in Steampunk: Subculture, Fashion & Performative Identity by BRIGID CHERRY and MARIA MELLINS
Can I Have A Taste of Your Ice Cream? by LUCY O’BRIEN
From ‘London’s Burning’ to ‘Sten Guns in Sunderland’ by RUSS BESTLEY
Kids’re Forming Bands: Making Meaning in Post-Punk by THEODORE GRACYK
‘A fanzine of record’: Merseysound and mapping Liverpool’s post-punk popular musicscapes by BRETT LASHUA and SARA COHEN
Interview with Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay, editors of White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by ROGER SABIN
Beth Ditto and the Post-Feminist Masquerade; or How ‘Post’ can Post-Punk Be? by SERENA GUARRACINO
REVIEWS by Alex Ogg, Philip Kiszely, Alex Ogg and Alex Ogg

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 1, Issue 2, 2012
Editorial by Philip Kiszely and Alex Ogg
Manchester, 1976: Documenting the urban nature of Joy Division’s musical production by Benjamin Fraser and Abby Fuoto
‘Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust’: The punk generation’s love/hate relationship with the Fab Four by Alex Ogg
Bad Girls, dancing like a blaze of consciousness by Fiona Bannon
First wave on film: Ray Gange, Rude Boy and The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle by Philip Kiszely
Anarcho-punk and resistance in everyday life by Kevin Dunn
Interview with David Ensminger, author of Visual Vitriol by Alex Ogg
BOOK REVIEW by Alex Ogg and Josef Loderer

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 1, Issue 3, 2012
The elephant in the room? ‘Post-socialist punk’ and the Pussy Riot phenomenon by Ivan Gololobov and Yngvar B. Steinholt
Punk - but not as we know it: Punk in post-socialist space by Hilary Pilkington
Punk is punk but by no means punk: Definition, genre evasion and the quest for an authentic voice in contemporary Russia by Yngvar Bordewich Steinholt
Pogo on the terraces:Perspectives from Croatia by Benjamin Perasovic
There are no atheists in trenches under fire: orthodox Christianity in russian punk by Ivan Gololobov
‘Mutants of the 67th parallel North’: Punk performance and the transformation of everyday life by Hilary Pilkington
This is not my country, my country is the GDR: East German punk and socio-economic processes after German reunification by Aimar Ventsel

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 2, Issue 1, 2013
EDITORIAL by Philip Kiszely and Alex Ogg
‘I Could’ve Been Raskolnikov’: Punk reads Dostoevsky by Brian James Schill
From place to space to scene: The Roxy Room and the emergence of Manchester’s alternative pop culture identity by Philip Kiszely
Doing the right things for the right reasons: Looking for authenticity in Punk and Stuckist practice by Paul Harvey
The slow death of intentionality in contemporary music: Implications for societal cohesion by Tom Hardy
Fast, cheap and out of control: The graphic symbol in hardcore punk by Al Larsen
REVIEWS by Nathaniel Weiner

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 2, Issue 2, 2013
Editorial by Philip Kiszely and Alex Ogg
‘I Tried to Make Him Laugh, He Didn’t Get the Joke...’ - taking punk humour seriously by Russell Bestley
Dutch punk with eastern connections: Mapping cultural flows between East and West Europe by Kirsty Lohman
Death to Trad Historicism: Futuremania, avant-gardism and Scottish post-Punk 1985-1994 by Pete Dale
Making a scene: The female punk narrative in Lou Adler’s Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains and Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens by Jimmy Weaver
Poly Styrene interview by Alex Ogg

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 2, Issue 3, 2014
Editorial by Philip Kiszely and Alex Ogg
Article: ‘Different people with different views but the same overall goals’: Divisions and unities within the contemporary British DIY punk subcultural movement by Michelle Liptrot
Article: Art attacks and killing jokes: The graphic language of punk humour by Russell Bestley
Interview: Rupert Loydell interviews Andrew Poppy, August 2013 by Rupert Loydell
Article: For you, Tommy, the war is never over by Alex Ogg
Article: ‘I Can’t Seem To Stay A Fixed Ideal’: Self-design and self-harm in subcultures by Guy Mankowski
Book Review by Philip Kiszely

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 3, Issue 1, 2014
Editorial by Philip Kiszely and Alex Ogg
‘Hey little rich boy, take a good look at me’: Punk, class and British Oi! by Matthew Worley
‘Stop flexing your roots, man’: Reconversion strategies, consecrated heretics and the violence of UK first-wave punk by Andrew Branch
Children of a lesser guild: An anarcho A-Z by Alex Ogg
Punk and Post-Punk in the Republic of Ireland: Networks, migration and the social history of the Irish music industry by Michael Mary Murphy
‘Prole Art Threat’: The Fall, the Blue Orchids and the politics of the post-punk working-class autodidact by David Wilkinson
Book Review by Rupert Loydell

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 3, Issue 2, 2014
Editorial by Philip Kiszely and Alex Ogg
Making sense of punk in Cuba/making sense of Cuba through punk by Thomas Astley
‘Take the toys from the boys’: Gender, generation and anarchist intent in the work of Poison Girls by Rich Cross
Foetus-art-terrorism: Deciphering genre, intertextuality and noise in J. G. Thirlwell’s early musical corpus (1981-1988) by Ursula-Helen Kassaveti
Pop manifestos and nosebleed art rock: What have post-punk bands achieved? by Guy Mankowski
Reviews by Rupert Loydell and Pete Dale

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 3, Issue 3, 2014
Introduction by ...
Distinctions of Authenticity and the everyday punk self by Alastair Gordon
Spreading the message! Fanzines and the punk scene in Portugal1 by Paula Guerra and Pedro Quintela
‘Mellow out or you will pay!’: The society of the spectacle in Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables and other late Cold War literature by David G. Fletcher
Working-class consciousness and connections to place in the work of Rancid by Kieran James
The need for healing: An interview with Martyn Bates by Rupert Loydell
Book Reviews by Mike Dines

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 4, Issue 1, 2015
Introduction by Jim Donaghey and Francis Stewart
Pay no more than 45 copies: The collection legacy of the Crass Record, Reality Asylum (1979) by Alastair Gordon
‘Shariah don’t like it ...?’ Punk and religion in Indonesia by Jim Donaghey
Punk and religion in the Republic of Ireland, 1977-1981 by Michael Mary Murphy
The anarchist, the punk rocker and the Buddha walk into a bar(n): Dharma Punx and Rebel Dharma by Francis Stewart
Postsecular punk: Evangelical Christianity and the overlapping consensus of the underground by Ibrahim Abraham
Exhibition Review by Peter Jones

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 4, Issue 2-3, 2015
Editorial by Russ Bestley and Alex Ogg
(I want some) demystification: Deconstructing punk by Russ Bestley
Reflections on the peripheral: Punk, pedagogy and the domestication of the radical by Mike Dines
Listening in circles: Punk pedagogy and the decline of western music education by Jessica A. Schwartz
‘I could scream my truth right through your lies if I wanted’: Bikini Kill’s sound-collage and the subversive rhetoric of grrrlhood by Megan Sormus
Sex Drugs and HIV: An interview with Mat Sargent about his DIY project ‘Sex Drugs and HIV’ by Anita Raghunath
Conference Review by Mike Dines and Alastair Gordon
Call it Crass but There Is No Authority But Yourself: De-canonizing punk’s underbelly by Matt Grimes
‘Punk’s dead, Michael’: Artifice, independence and authenticity in Leigh Bowery’s self-fashioned post-punk performative by Pamela Karantonis
Review by Anita Raghunath

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 5, Issue 1, 2016
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Striving for authenticity: Punk in China by Jian Xiao
‘Laughter is a Harlequin’: Laughter and identity in a close reading of a Cuban punk band by Tom Astley
Book Reviews by Kirsty Lohman and Pete Dale
Si se puede!: Chicas Rockeras and punk music education in South East Los Angeles by Jessica A. Schwartz
Towards a field theory of punk by Alan O’Connor
Book Reviews by Gareth Dylan Smith and Lars J. Kristiansen

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 5, Issue 2, 2016
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Thinking punk by Robin Ryde and Russ Bestley
The punks, the web, local concerns and global appeal: Cultural hybridity in Turkish hardcore punk by Lyndon C. S. Way and Dylan Wallace
Was John Wayne a Nazi? The racial politics of taste in 1980s US hardcore punk by Robert A. Winkler
Imagining the scene and the memory of the F-Club: Talking about lost punk and postpunk spaces in Leeds by Karl Spracklen, Stephen Henderson and David Procter
Factory records and the situationist influence on urban space by James Ingham
Punk’s dead knot: Constructing the temporal and spatial in commercial punk imagery by Ian Trowell
Film Review by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone and Emanuel Tanti
Exhibition Reviews by Rich Cross and Matthew Worley
Book Reviews by Russ Bestley and Matthew Worley

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 5, Issue 3, 2016
Editorial by Russ Bestley
This is [not] the A.L.F.?: Anarchism, punk rock and animal advocacy by Francis Stewart
‘Refusing to Be a Man’: Gender, feminism and queer identity in the punk culture by Gerfried Ambrosch
‘I don’t wanna walk around with you’: Routes, roots and composing the grrrl geography of rebellion in Stephanie Kuehnert’s I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Megan Sormus
A ‘non’ that became a yes: David Shields’ Reality Hunger and the punk germ in the new literary nonfiction by Lucinda Strahan
Blake Schwarzenbach and the anxieties of American punk rock: 1991-present by Arin Keeble
‘I wonder who chose the colour scheme, it’s very nice...’: Mike Coles, Malicious Damage and Forty Years in the Wilderness by Russ Bestley
Exhibition Review by Rebecca Binns
Book Reviews by Russ Bestley, Matthew Worley and Pete Dale
A eulogy to Robert Dellar: Mike Dines in conversation with Ted Curtis by Mike Dines

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 6, Issue 1, 2017
Editorial by Russ Bestley
‘Moderne Muziek’: Vinyl magazine and the Dutch post-punk movement by Richard Foster
Digging up the dead cities: Abandoned streets and past ruins of the future in the glossy punk magazine by Ian Trowell
‘Ours is a strange pornography’: Reflections on performing punk in academia by Tom Astley
Ethics and practices in American DIY spaces by Peter J. Woods
Discriminate me: Racial exclusivity and neoliberalism’s subcultural influence on New York hardcore by Alan Parkes
Anarchy in Japan’s film industry: How punk rescued Japanese cinema by Mark Player
Spectral transmissions: All-night television’s role in the formation of first-wave punk aesthetics by Tony McMahon
Book Reviews by Mike Dines, Mike Diboll, Russ Bestley and Rich Cross
Being reflective about Introspective: An interview with Stevphen Shukaitis by Rich Cross
Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017) by Arin Keeble
Gig Reviews by Rich Cross and Gerard Evans
Exhibition Review by Ian Trowell

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 6, Issue 2, 2017
Punk Indonesia: A brief introduction by Jim Donaghey
Punk and the city: A history of punk in Bandung by Frans Ari Prasetyo
A.C.A.B.: Studying up the rule of law in Banda Aceh, Indonesia by Marjaana Jauhola and Yudi Bolong
‘Life in the positive way’: Indonesian straight edge and the limits of lifestyle politics by Sean Martin-Iverson
‘Nevermind the jahiliyyah, here’s the hijrahs’: Punk and the religious turn in the contemporary Indonesian underground scene by Hikmawan Saefullah
Researching ‘Punk Indonesia’: Notes towards a non-exploitative insider methodology by Jim Donaghey
Book Reviews by Kirsty Lohman and Kirby Pringle
Gig Reviews by Mike Dines and Paul Mego

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 6, Issue 3, 2017
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Musical protagonism: Beyond participation in punk and post-punk by Russell Richards
Post-punk and alternative cabaret: Avant-garde, counterculture and revolution by Ray Campbell
‘Tout Faux’: Parisian landscape and hardcore punk, 1983-87 by Tyler Sonnichsen
Penny Rimbaud interview by Pete Dale
A honeycomb of opinion: An interview with Jeanette Leech by Rupert Loydell
Post-punk poet: An interview with Dick Witts of The Passage by Rupert Loydell
‘Ireland’s First Punk Band’: An interview with Radiators From Space by Michael Mary Murphy
Punk’s secret agent: How Paul Charles brought punk to Ireland, Britain and the international market by Michael Mary Murphy
They’ve Taken our Ghettos: An interview with Rebecca Binns and Derek Molyneaux by Greg Bull
Contemporary Fanzines Review by Rich Cubesville
Book Reviews by Kirsty Lohman, Pete Dale, Jim Donaghey and Jim Donaghey
Gig Reviews by Michael Mary Murphy and Russ Bestley

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 7, Issue 1, 2018
Editorial by Russ Bestley and Pete Dale
Design it yourself? Punk’s division of labour by Russ Bestley
Do what yourself?: Querying the status of ‘it’ in contemporary punk by Pete Dale
Punk’s popularity anxieties and DIY institutions as ideological (anti-)state apparatuses by David Pearson
Meaning and making: Merchandise practices in the Newcastle DIY scene by Ruairi Burns and Steven Threadgold
Trying to have fun in ‘No Fun City’: Legal and illegal strategies for creating punk spaces in Vancouver, British Columbia by Katie Victoria Green
Open for investigation: An interview with Stephen Mallinder by Rupert Loydell
Still fighting the cuts: An interview with Mekons 77 by Russ Bestley
Book Reviews by Roger Sabin, Pete Dale, Mike Dines and Ian Hornsby
Exhibition Review by Carol Lynn
Gig Reviews by Dave Clark and Rich Cross

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 7, Issue 2, 2018
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Process over product: The 1990s United States hardcore and emo subcultures and DIY consumerism by Monica Sklar and Mary Kate Donahue
‘Put on your boots and Harrington!’: The ordinariness of 1970s UK punk dress by Nathaniel Weiner
From music to revolution: The semiotics of punk and cinematic symbolism in Sôgo Ishii’s Burst City by David Toohey
An epistolary scene: ‘Post-industrial’ music in France in the 1980s by Christophe Broqua and Vincent Douris
‘It feels like summer in October’: A study of Gainesville’s Fest by Ellen M. Bernhard
Remembering Mark E. Smith of the Fall: Self-described ‘northern white cr*p that talks back’ by David Wilkinson
Hip Priest: An interview with Mark E. Smith by Roger Sabin
Dark Shadows and Rust: An interview with Trouble Pilgrims by Michael Mary Murphy
Book Reviews by Mike Dines, Ibrahim Abraham, Rupert Loydell, Rupert Loydell and Rupert Loydell
Album Review by Rupert Loydell
Conference Reviews by Ellen Bernhard and Temmuz Sureyya Gurbuz
Gig Review by Robin Ryde

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 7, Issue 3, 2018
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Fan artefacts and doing it themselves: The home-made graphics of punk devotees by Russ Bestley and Paul Burgess
‘No I don’t like where you come from, it’s just a satellite of London’: High Wycombe, the Sex Pistols and the punk transformation by Martin James
Punk fanzine culture and civil protest among Israeli youth by Oded Heilbronner
DIY in Devon (Exeter and Plymouth) by Dominic Deane
More Than a Pony Show: An interview with Matt Stokes by Russ Bestley
Elvera Butler: Ireland’s ground-breaking New Wave female entrepreneur by Michael Mary Murphy
‘Encyclopaedic tendencies and impossible projects’: An interview with Peter Blegvad by Rupert Loydell
‘It’s about being true to yourself’: An interview with Miguel ‘Kinnie’ Debattista, from Batteries Not Included (Malta) by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone
Book Reviews by Lucy Robinson, Francis Stewart, Rich Cross, Rupert Loydell, Josef Loderer and Matthew Worley
Album Review by Russ Bestley
Festival Review by Paul Mego
Exhibition Reviews by Rebecca Binns and Ian Trowell

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 8, Issue 1, 2019
Editorial by Russ Bestley and Mike Dines
Devoured by music: Katie Jane Garside, improvisation and popular music by Charlie Bramley
Everyone was doing everything: The post-punk polymath on the Lower East Side by Lewis Church
‘Are we punks? - Yes, we drink!’: The politics of drinking in a youth subculture by Ivan Gololobov and Al’bina Garifzyanova
Social networks, festivals and the sense of belonging: Framing Rebellion festivals in Blackpool by Michael Tsangaris
‘Punks are not girls’: Exploring discrimination and empowerment through the experiences of punk and alt-rock musicians in Leeds by Jennah Rouse
See no colour, hear no colour, speak no colour: Problematizing colourblindness in Los Angeles punk historiography by Richard Cruz Davila
Tex-Mex punk: Rasquache sublimation in the films of Jim Mendiola by Ed Cameron
Weird religious backgrounds: Larry Norman, Jesus Rock and an interview with Gregory Alan Thornbury by Rupert Loydell
The Great Offender: An interview with Caroline Coon by Maria Elena Buszek
Book Reviews by Kay Channon, Mike Dines, Mike Dines and Marlie Centawer
Film Review by Russ Bestley
Conference Review by Kevin Quinn
Exhibition Review by Monica Sklar

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 8, Issue 2, 2019
Foreword by Russ Bestley
Notes in the margins by Kirsty Lohman and Anita Raghunath
‘You want me to surrender my identity?’ Laura Jane Grace, transition and selling out by Kristen Carella and Kathryn Wymer
‘No more heroes anymore’: Marginalized identities in punk memorialization and curation by Francis Stewart
Not for you? Ethical implications of archiving zines by Kirsty Fife
Hang on the Box and women’s identity in China by Christopher Zysik
‘I don’t go to the gigs to go to the gigs - I don’t give a shit about the gigs!’: Exploring gig attendance and older punk women by Laura Way
‘I’m the shy boy’: Remembering Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks by David Wilkinson
Keith Flint, 1969-2019 by Martin James
Book Reviews by Matt Grimes, Michael Mary Murphy, Paul Hollins and Francis Stewart
Film Review by Rebecca Binns
Conference Review by Adam Loesch
Exhibition Review by Ian Trowell

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 8, Issue 3, 2019
Editorial by Russ Bestley
‘There’s nothing I can do’: Bad faith and the narrative maintenance of ethical identifications by Edward Avery-Natale
Côté punk: Marc Caro by Michelle Scatton-Tessier
Hypervisibility in Australian punk scenes: Queer experiences of spatial logics of gender and sexuality by Megan Sharp
Who remembers post-punk women? by Jessica Blaise Ward
The Top of the Poppers sing and play punk by Russ Bestley
‘I hold the key to the sea of possibilities’: Patti Smith Group and the occult by Jarek Paul Ervin
A politics of memory: An interview with Mark Sinker by Rupert Loydell
Fun, fashion, faith and flamboyance: An interview with Bev Sage by Rupert Loydell
Omar Higgins 1981-2019 by Paul Mego
Book Reviews by Kevin Quinn, Mike Dines and Russ Bestley
Album Review by Russ Bestley
Exhibition Review by James F. Anderson

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 9, Issue 1, 2020
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Article: ‘I thought it was a very punk rock thing to say’: NOFX’s (sort-of) public apology and (in)civility in defining contemporary punk rock in online spaces by Ellen M. Bernhard
Article: ‘Punks in Vegas’: Punk rock and image repair by Lars J. Kristiansen
Article: Suffering and the Nietzschean affirmation of life in the lyrics of Bad Religion by Filippos Kourakis
Article: In defence of safer spaces: Punk, privilege and safer spaces policies by Rosemary Lucy Hill and Molly Megson
Article: Surviving through subculture: Finding undeath in psychobilly by Kimberly Kattari
Interview: Revisiting Ghostown, the Radiators, Tony Visconti and the sound of punk: An interview with Pete Holidai by Michael Mary Murphy
Interview: Making photographs work: An interview with Craig Atkinson of Café Royal Books by Ian Trowell
Obituary: ‘Life on the Line’: Barrie Masters, 1956-2019 by Ian Canty
Obituary: ‘This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven’: Vaughan Oliver 1957-2019 by Russ Bestley
Book Reviews ...
Album Review: Optimism/Reject: UK DIY Punk and Post-Punk 1977-1981, 4CD Box Set, Various Artists by Russ Bestley
Exhibition Review: Kids of the Black Hole: The First Two Decades of Punk in Orange County, Chapman University in Orange Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections & Archives, Orange, California, 12 September 2018-18 December 2019 by Denise M. Johnson

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 9, Issue 2, 2020
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Article: I want something new: Limp Records and the birth of DC punk, 1976-80 by John R. Davis
Article: Booking your own life: The development of a DIY touring network in the United States by Daniel Makagon
Article: ‘If I had more time it could be better, but the new wave’s about spontaneity, right?’: Finding meaning in Britain’s early punk fanzines (1976-77) by Matthew Worley
Article: Grey matter/literature/area: Bucketfull of Brains, fanzine form and cultural formation by Ieuan Franklin
Article: Vox magazine: Dublin street fashion and photography in an early 1980s magazine by Orla Fitzpatrick
Article: ‘Who is really gonna benefit?’: The punk habitus in the downtown Edmonton field by Rylan Kafara
Article: Activate, collaborate, participate: The network revolutions of riot grrrl-affiliated music worlds by Susan O’Shea
Interview: This is not a burden, it's a joy: An interview with Ben Ratliff by Rupert Loydell
Obituary: ‘I Found That Essence Rare’: Andy Gill, 1 January 1956-1 February 2020 by David Wilkinson
Obituary: Genesis P-Orridge, 22 February 1950-14 March 2020 by Ian Trowell
Obituary: ‘Waltzinblack’: Dave Greenfield, 29 March 1949-3 May 2020 by Russ Bestley
Book Review: Contemporary Punk Rock Communities: Scenes of Inclusion and Dedication, Ellen M. Bernhard (2019) by Laura Way
Book Review: The 33? B-Sides, Will Stockton and D. Gilson (eds) (2019) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: Christian Punk: Identity and Performance, Ibrahim Abraham (ed.) (2020) by Mike Dines
Book Review: Psychobilly: Subcultural Survival, Kimberley Kattari (2020) by Jake Hawkes
Book Review: Sex Pistols: The End is Near, 25.12.77, Kevin Cummins (2020) by Paul Hollins
Album Review: Dreams to Fill the Vacuum: The Sound of Sheffield 1978-1988, 4CD Box Set, Various Artists by Russ Bestley
Conference Review: Anyone can do it: Noise, punk and the ethics/politics of transgression by Kevin Quinn

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 9, Issue 3, 2020
Editorial by Rebecca Binns and Ian Trowell
Counter-realities and conflicted place: Gee Vaucher’s The Feeding of the Five Thousand in the punk art tradition by Ian Trowell
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Lower East Side: Post-punk feminist art and New York’s Club 57 by Maria Elena Buszek
The 1979 American Punk Art dispute: Visions of punk art between sensationalism, street art and social practice by Marie Arleth Skov
Designing fascism: The evolution of a neo-Nazi punk aesthetic by Ana Raposo and Russ Bestley
Of other spaces: ‘Punk art’ and its wider contexts by Rebecca Binns
Burning up time: An interview with Stuckist painter Paul Harvey by Sarah Dryden
Alternative states of being: Automatism, transgression and DIY in the work and life of Cathy Ward by Rebecca Binns
Art On My Sleeve: An interview with Steve Averill, graphic designer by Russ Bestley
Stencils: Past, Present, and Crass!, Dave King (2020) by Rich Cross
Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die: Punk & Post Punk Graphics 1976-1986, Andrew Krivine (2020) by Richard Foster
Warhol: A Life as Art, Blake Gopnik (2020) by Steve Finbow
Young Punks, Sheila Rock (2020) by Russ Bestley
When Midnight Comes Around, Gary Green (2020) by Russ Bestley
Punk Now!! Contemporary Perspectives on Punk, Matt Grimes and Mike Dines (eds) (2020) by Edward Avery-Natale

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 10, Issue 1, 2021
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Putting the ‘punk’ back into pop-punk: Analysing presentations of deviance in pop-punk music by Justus Grebe and Robert A. Winkler
From scene films to scene videos: Communities documenting communities by Cibrán Tenreiro Uzal
Revisiting early punk cinema by Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz
‘A series of images against you and me’: Richey Edwards’ portrayal of the body in Journal For Plague Lovers by Guy Mankowski
‘The strange brotherhood of the blue ship’: Albert Camus and Justin Sullivan’s philosophy of measure by Joanna Ros
Manifesting desire and anarchy as method: The problem of Inside Pussy Riot by Aylwyn Walsh
Stay punk!! Stay free!! Subcultural identity, resistance and Covid-19 in northern Japan by James D. Letson
We don’t hide from vague: An interview with the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus by Rupert Loydell
L.A.M.F.: Walter Lure, 22 April 1949-22 August 2020 by Ian Canty
The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren, Paul Gorman (2020) by James F. Anderson
What Is Post-punk? Genre and Identity in Avant-garde Popular Music, 1977-82, Mimi Haddon (2020) by Claudia Lonkin
Too Old to Die Young: Paranoid Visions, Punk Rock, and Me, Peter Jones (2020) by Michael Mary Murphy
Punkgirldiaries Blogzine 2, Lene Cortina and Vim Renault (2020) by Laura Way
Killer Tunes and Screaming Bloody Murder in the Basement of Hell... and Other Stories, Cubesville (2020) by Gregory Bull
Mala Hierba: El Surgimiento Del Punk En El Barrio Castilla, Medellín, Carlos Alberto David Bravo (2019) by Minerva Campion
Shellshock Rock: Alternative Blasts from Northern Ireland 1977-1984, 3CD and DVD box set, Various Artists by Russ Bestley

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 10, Issue 2, 2021
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Article: ‘We are fireworks’: Anarcho-punk, positive punk and democratic individuality by Stuart White
Article: Transmissions: Sonic markers of difference in the sound of Joy Division by Eirik Askerøi
Article: ‘Recycling the past to meet immediate needs’: Bad Religion’s approach to history1 by Joseph D. Bryan
Article: La Movida Madrileña and ‘Paris Maquis’: A comparative history of Madrilenian and Parisian punk by James Kearney
Article: Habitus and field: Punk record labels in Spain by Alan O’Connor
Article: Slampt, the ‘fans’ and ephemerality: Punk, subject and object by Pete Dale
Book Review: Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics, Dylan Jones (2020) by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: Anthology of Emo, vol. 1, Tom Mullen (ed.) (2017)
Book Review: Anthology of Emo, vol. 2, Tom Mullen (ed.) (2020)
Book Review: Washed Up Emo podcast, Tom Mullen (host) (2011-present) by Andrew Mall
Book Review: The Scene That Would Not Die: Twenty Years of Post-Millennial Punk in the UK, Ian Glasper (2020) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion, Bad Religion and Jim Ruland (2020) by Ellen Bernhard
Book Review: Why the Ramones Matter, Donna Gaines (2018) by John Dougan
Book Review: Killing Joke: Are You Receiving?, Jyrki ‘Spider’ Hämäläinen (2020) by Brian Zager
Book Review: Great Gig Memories: From Punks and Friends, compiled by Niall McGuirk and Michael Murphy (2020) by Matthew Worley
Book Review: Diminished Responsibility: My Life as a U.K. Sub, and Other Strange Stories, vol. 1, Alvin Gibbs (2020) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: My Punk Life as Art: 1980s Punk Portraits, Rubber Ro and Friends (2020) by Gerard Evans
Book Review: Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2, Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon and Paula Guerra (eds) (2021) by Maria Elena Buszek
Album Review: Shake the Foundations: Militant Funk & the Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984, 3CD Box Set, Various Artists by Rupert Loydell
DVD Review: Sex, Drugs & HIV: The Studio Sessions, DVD Box Set by Russ Bestley

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 10, Issue 3, 2021
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Article: From punk into pop (via hardcore): Re-reading the Sub Pop manifesto by Nicholas Attfield
Article: The cover-version spectrum: Reframing the relationship between imitation and transformation in pop-punk cover-versions by Rob Upton
Article: The cultural production of Cabaret Voltaire: Marxism, the politics of modernism and post-punk by Nick Stevenson
Article: Becoming and being goth: How goths remember the scene’s transition from the eighties into the nineties by Trevor Bamford, Joseph Ibrahim and Karl Spracklen
Article: Authenticity in an insider-in ethnography of post-punk by Rio Goldhammer
Article: Rebelling in different ways: Older punk women, employment and ‘being/doing’ punk by Laura Way
Interview: ‘Who is to say?’: An interview with Paul Morley by Rupert Loydell
Interview: ‘We were living the video revolution’: An interview with Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers by Maria Elena Buszek
Obituary: In memorium: Peter Ventantonio aka Jack Terricloth (11 June 1970-13 May 2021) by Janis Chakars
Obituary: Mix-up: Richard H. Kirk, 21 March 1956-8 August 20211 by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries, Richard Osborne and Dave Laing (eds) (2021) by Pete Dale
Book Review: DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media, Ellis Jones (2021) by Pete Dale
Book Review: Punkzines: British Fanzine Culture from the Punk Scene 1976-1983, Eddie Piller and Steve Rowland (2021) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: We’re Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America, Kevin Mattson (2020) by Paul Mego
Book Review: I’m Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-And-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion, Nancy Barile (2021) by John Dougan
Book Review: Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion, Harry Sword (2021) by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: The London Musicians’ Collective: ‘An Obstinate Clot of Invention’, Trevor Barre (2020) by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: Rub Me Out: All My Songs and a Load of Other Stuff, The Shend (2021) by Rich Cross
Album Review: Statements of Intent 1982-1987, 4 CD box set, Conflict by Mike Dines

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 11, Issue 1, 2022
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Article: ‘We are the Others’: A literary analysis of the rise, fall and resurrection of Ultima Thule’s Viking-rock by Björn Bradling
Article: Brains on the asphalt: Three punk expressions of crisis by Franko Burolo
Article: From ‘commercial sell out’ to community-based event: The paradoxes of Polish punk rock music festivals by Waldemar Kuligowski
Article: Bone in the Throat: Video archiving and identity building within the Montreal hardcore scene by Olivier Bérubé-Sasseville
Interview: ‘The culture I identify with’: An interview with Gary Budden by Rupert Loydell
Obituary: Tears of a Nation: Mick Crudge by Gary Watts (Gaz Suspect)
Obituary: Philosopher, magician and musical scientist Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry (Rainford Hugh Perry) by Paul Hollins
Obituary: The Jazz Butcher: Pat Fish, 20 December 1957-5 October 2021 by Pete Dale
Obituary: Angelic upstart: Thomas Mensforth, 4 July 1956-10 December 2021 by Nathan Brown
Book Review: On Compromise: Art, Politics and the Fate of an American Ideal, Rachel Greenwald-Smith (2021) by Arin Keeble
Book Review: Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media, Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Matt Grimes and Paula Guerra (eds) (2021) by Anita Raghunath
Book Review: Punk, Gender, and Ageing: Just Typical Girls?, Laura Way (2020) by Ellen Bernhard
Book Review: Reversing Into The Future: New Wave Graphics 1977-1990, Andrew Krivine (2021) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: The Best of Jamming! Selections and Stories from the Fanzine that Grew Up, 1977-86, Tony Fletcher (ed.) (2021) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s, Rachel Garfield (2022) by Tim Forster
Book Review: Deindustrialisation and Popular Music: Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere, Giacomo Bottà (2020) by Paul Hollins
Book Review: Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983, Shanya L. Maskell (2021) by Mike Dines
Book Review: Souvenir: London, 1979-1986, Michael Bracewell (2021) by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: Girlsville: The Story of The Delmonas & Thee Headcoatees, Saskia Holling (2021) by Pete Dale
Book Review: A Case of Pride: Skrewdriver, Punk’n’roll 1976-79, Mark Green (2021) by Russ Bestley

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 11, Issue 2, 2022
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Article: DC hardcore, gentrification and punk urbanism by Maxwell Woods
Article: You (plural): Political configurations of punk’s DIY ethos by John Charles Goshert
Article: Between surrealism and politics: An exploration of subversive body arts in 1980s East German underground cinema by Cynthia Schulz
Article: Opening up the pit: Negotiating a punk ethos with PUP by Morgan Bimm and Andi Schwartz
Article: Contesting class, gender and national identity: The visual art practice of Test Dept by Tim Forster
Interview: Fractured and elliptical sensibilities: An interview with Steve Taylor by Rupert Loydell
Obituary: ‘There goes my hero’: Taylor Hawkins (17 February 1972-25 March 2022) by Matt Grimes
Book Review: Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock & Roll, Lenny Kaye (2021) by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present, J. R. Moores (2021) by Yorgos Paschos
Book Review: Red Days: Popular Music & the English Counterculture 1965-1975, John Roberts (2020) by Stan Erraught
Book Review: PUNK! Las Américas Edition, Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, Rodrigo Quijano and Shane Greene (eds) (2021) by Daniel Makagon
Book Review: Directions to the Outskirts of Town: Punk Rock Tour Diaries from Nineties North America, Welly Artcore (2021) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: Faster! Louder! How a Punk Rocker from Yorkshire Became British Champion Fell Runner, Boff Whalley (2021) by Russ Bestley
Exhibition Review: Decolonize the Disenfranchised: Gregg Deal, Tutse Nakoekwu (Minor Threat) and the Disruption of Indigenous Stereotypes, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, USA, 28 January-1 March, 2022 by Emily Owens

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 11, Issue 3, 2022
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Article: Women’s experience in Estonian punk scenes during the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet society by Brigitta Davidjants
Article: ‘What the heck: Eskorbuto for PM!’: Eskorbuto’s punk music and anarchist ideology by Jorge David Fernández Gómez and Antonio Pineda
Article: The rhetoric of recovery in Social Distortion’s White Light, White Heat, White Trash by Adam J. Goldwyn
Article: Just a noisy hall, where there’s a nightly brawl, and all that punk: The problematic union of craft beer and punk by Paul Fields
Obituary: Cathal Coughlan: An appreciation by Michael Mary Murphy
Obituary: Mark Astronaut (27 August 1954-6 July 2022) by Marcus Blakeston
Book Review: Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres, Kelefa Sanneh (2021) by Rob Thomas
Book Review: No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk, Gavin Butt (2022) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: From Arthaus to Bauhaus, 1972-1979, Andrew J. Brooksbank (2021) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: Why Patti Smith Matters, Caryn Rose (2022)1 by Simon Warner
Book Review: Themes for Great Cities: A New History of Simple Minds, Graeme Thomson (2022) by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: The Light Pours Out of Me: The Authorised Biography of John McGeoch, Rory Sullivan-Burke (2022) by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: Mark Hollis: A Perfect Silence, Ben Wardle (2022) by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars, Nick Duerden (2022) by Rupert Loydell
Event Review: The Rebellion Festival, Blackpool, 4-7 August 2022 by Niall McGuirk
Event Review: R-Fest, Blackpool, 4-7 August 2022 by Michael Mary Murphy
Exhibition Review: Days of Punk, Blindwell Gallery, Braunton, Devon, 14 July-3 September 2022 by Russ Bestley
Exhibition Review: PUNK! The Revolution of Everyday Life, curated by Kounosuke Kawakami by Robert Dahlberg-Sears

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 12, Issue 1, 2023
Editorial
Article: Autonomy and agency: The event of punk by K. (K. C.) Cashell
Article: On punk friendship and the limits of community by George C. Grinnell
Article: Criticism as punctuation in the riot grrrl backlash by Elizabeth Newton
Article: Subcultural event tourism: The case study of Monte Paradiso hardcore punk festival in Pula, Croatia by Nikola Vojnovic
Interview: Multichannel diffusion: An interview with Robert Hampson by Rupert Loydell
Interview: ‘You Make Me Sick’: An interview with Puss Johnson and Steve Eagles of Satan’s Cats by Russ Bestley
Obituary: The queen of punk is dead: Vivienne Westwood, 8 April 1941-29 December 2022 by Marie Arleth Skov
Obituary: A non-obituary for D. H. Peligro by Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz
Book Review: Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk, Evan Rapport (2020) by Maxwell Woods
Book Review: A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad, Richard T. Rodríguez (2022) by Maria Elena Buszek
Book Review: Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity from Punk to New Wave, Simon Strange (2022) by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: Goudvishal DIY or DIE! Punk in Arnhem 1977-1990, Marcel Stol and Henk Wentink (eds) by Greg Bull
Book Review: SO36: 1978 BIS HEUTE, Sub Opus 36 e.V. (ed.) (2022) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: PZ77: A Town a Time a Tribe, Simon Parker (2022) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: Rock Against Racism Live, 1977-1981, Syd Shelton (2022) by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: A Book of Days, Patti Smith (2022) by Rupert Loydell
Film Review: Scene Unseen, Abdul Nizam and Friends (2021), Singapore: M’Go Films. by Ginette Chittick

Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 12, Issue 2, 2023
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Article: The afterlife of punk: Evental sites of punk 77 by K. (K. C.) Cashell
Article: Presentism, dystopia, negative solution: Three forms of the punk chronotype ‘no future’ by Justus Grebe
Article: Punk and decolonial thinking in Bogota, Colombia by Minerva Campion
Article: Young, loud and snotty: Punk, rebellion and the movies by Matthew Smith
Interview: Seeing what they want to see: An interview with Michael Bracewell by Rupert Loydell
Interview: Totally inspired by punk: An interview with Martin Bowes and Alan Rider by Rupert Loydell
Book Review: Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde, Rebecca Binns (2022) by Emily Owens
Book Review: 69 Exhibition Road: Twelve True-Life Tales from the Fag End of Punk, Porn & Performance, Dorothy Max Prior (2022) by Peter Jones
Book Review: Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth, Cathi Unsworth (2023) by Paul Hollins
Book Review: Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy, Joshua Heter and Richard Greene (eds) (2022) by Grace Healy
Book Review: DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community, David Verbuc (2022) by Mike Dines
Book Review: We Can Be the New Wind, Alexandros Anesiadis (2022) by Russ Bestley
Book Review: Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Culture, Jamie Sexton (2023) by John Ike Sewell
Book Review: You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike (2022) by Paul Hollins
Book Review: Adventures in Wonderland, Paul Charles (2023) by Michael Mary Murphy

Bezirksrat Südstadt-Bult September 2023

Es gibt Themen, da ist der Bezirksrat voll. Zum Beispiel, wenn sich Autofahrer*innen aufregen, dass ihr "Recht" ihr Auto direkt vor der Haustür abzustellen beschnitten werden könnte. Dann kommen sie zum ersten Mal in eine Bezirksratssitzung und fordern Bürgerbeteiligung – was ja die Einwohner*innenfragestunde, in der sie sich zu Wort melden, bereits ist - und die Missachtung von Gerichtsurteilen. Eine Rednerin wollte partout ihren Namen nicht sagen und berief sich auf "Datenschutz" (wo keine Daten, da auch kein Datenschutz). Aber ohne Angabe von Namen und Anschrift kein Beleg, dass sie tatsächlich Bewohnerin des Stadtbezirks ist, und folglich kein Rederecht. Wiederholt wurden einzelne Redebeiträge trotz mehrerer Hinweise, dass dies zu unterbleiben habe weil nach Geschäftsordnung unzulässig, kräftig beklatscht, so das es zum Eklat kam und die Einwohner*innenfragestunde vorzeitig abgebrochen wurde. Die FDP will sich aber noch mal erklären lassen, wo das Verbot des Klatschens konkret niedergeschrieben ist.
Für die nächste Sitzung am 15. November befürchte ich ähnliches und dann will ja noch OB Onay eine Einwohner*innen-Versammlung am 20. November in Südstadt-Bult abhalten.

Im übrigen fehlte die Vertreterin der PARTEI wieder unentschuldigt, die Vertreterin der Linken hatte sich krank gemeldet und die CDU war auch zu 3/4 abwesend, so dass anfänglich unklar war, ob der Bezirksrat beschlussfähig sein würde. Da aber das beratende Mitglied der Linken – beratende Mitglieder sind Mitglieder des Stadtrats, deren Wahlkreis sich mit dem Stadtbezirk überschneidet – anwesend war kam die Resolution für ein kostenloses Schulmittagessen zur Abstimmung, auch wenn die FDP zu Recht anmerkte, dass die Resolution ja nicht den Stadtbezirk (allein) betreffe, sondern in den Aufgabenbereich des Stadtrats gehöre. Aber in der Vergangenheit wurde ja auch mal beschlossen, den Stadtbezirk zur Atomwaffen-freien Zone zu erklären. Überhaupt war die FDP ziemlich aktiv, brachte in der Sitzung Änderungsanträge zu den beiden grün-roten Vorlagen ein, wobei sie auch einmal Erfolg hatte.

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Popgeschichte

• Jeff Hayton: Culture from the Slums. Punk Rock in East and West Germany (Review)
• Forschungsprojekt: “Eiszeit. Der ‘Kälte-Einbruch’ in der deutschen (Pop-)Musik (1970er-80er)”
• Research Project: Punk in the Federal Republic Germany 1976-1990s (English & German text)
• Research Project: ENDZEITOPIA. Forever Celebrating The End. Post Punk, Goth and Avant Garde in East Germany (1982 – 1992)
• “In that mess we became part of the Geniale Dilletanten scene”: Mark Reeder and the West Berlin avant-garde music scene around 1980 (Interview)

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Wie Mann sich um Kopf und Kragen redet

Jann S. Wenn war der Gründer und lange Jahre Herausgeber der amerikanischen Musikzeitschrift ROLLING STONE. Er hat gerade ein Buch mit seinen Interviews mit Bono, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Pete Townshend und Bruce Springsteen unter dem Titel "The Masters" herausgebracht und dazu ein Interview der New York Times gegeben. Als Folge dieses Interviews erlebt er einen Scheißetornado und hat seinen Posten bei der ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME verloren. Die aktuelle Redaktion des ROLLING STONE distanzierte sich von Wenner.

Ausgangspunkt der Kritik war Wenners Erklärung, warum nur alte weiße Männer in dem Buch auftauchen. Liest man das Interview so wird klar, dass es sich bei den Interviewpartnern um Freunde handelt und Wenner eher freundliche Unterhaltungen mit ihnen führte anstatt konfrontativer Interviews. Dass in diesem Vertrauensverhältnis durchaus interessante Aussagen zu Stande kommen belegt das Interview mit Lennon von 1970, in dem dieser seine Abkehr von den Beatles sehr deutlich zum Ausdruck bringt. Dass Wenner die ausgewählten Interviews für seine besten hält, sei ihm unbenommen. Dass weder Frauen noch farbige Künstler*innen in der Auswahl auftauchen mag vielleicht daran liegen, dass diese nicht zu seinem Freundeskreis gehörten und daher Interviews mit ihnen nie den gewünschten intimen Charakter hatten. Oder sie ihm nicht das gaben, was er in den Interviews gesucht hat, zum Beispiel eine Erfahrungswelt, an die er Anschluss finden konnte. Wenn man merkt, dass der Gegenüber nicht offen ist für die eigenen Gedanken, dann öffnet man sich eher nicht, schweigt, spricht aneinander vorbei, es entsteht kein Vertrauensverhältnis. Was nun auch nicht unbedingt für Wenner als Interviewer spricht, but those were the days. Jeder lebt in seiner eigenen Welt und vielleicht wird man mit dem Alter klüger und sieht seine Versäumnisse ein, macht also nicht den Aiwanger. Was dann auch okay ist. Fehler und Versäumnisse kann man ja zugeben. Später, wenn es nicht mehr so weh tut (man muss es ja nicht so machen wie Elvis Costello, der sich zwanzig Jahre später nicht traute Ray Charles die Hand zu geben).

Dummerweise erklärt Wenner das Fehlen von Frauen und farbige Künstler*innen in der Interviewsammlung damit diese seien "not articulate enough on an intellectual level". Die ausgewählten Interviewpartner seien "philosophers of rock ’n’ roll". "They [said] deep things about a particular generation, a particular spirit and a particular attitude about rock ’n’ roll. Not that the others weren’t, but these were the ones that could really articulate it". Wie bereits vermutet hat Wenner in den Interviews bestimmte Aussagen gesucht und die haben ihm Frauen und farbige Künstler*innen eben nicht geliefert. Weil sie eben andere Erfahrungen gemacht haben und daher andere Ansichten geäußert haben, die Wenner entweder – positiv ausgedrückt – nicht gehört hat oder – negativ ausgedrückt – nicht hören wollte. Die "Schuld" für dieses eigene Versagen bei den Interviewpartner*innen zu suchen ist eigentlich eine Unverschämtheit. Also ob die Künstler*innen für das Versagen des Interviewers verantwortlich seien. (Eigentlich sollten Künstler*innen für Interviews bezahlt werden, denn schließlich leisten sie entsprechende Arbeit, um Rohmaterial für die Autor*innen zu liefern. Ohne die Mitwirkung bei Interviews kein Zeilenhonorar.) Getoppt wird das ganze noch von der Überlegung von Wenner, er hätte einfach ein nicht ganz so gutes Interview mit einem farbigen Künstler in die Sammlung aufnehmen sollen, um diese Art von Kritik abzuwenden.
Jann S. Wenner hat sich seinen Scheißetornado redlich verdient.

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Bezirksrat Südstadt-Bult Juni 2023

Die letzte Sitzung vor der Sommerpause war zwar lang, aber nicht so spannend. Die Vertreterin der PARTEI schwänzte mal wieder, die Vertreterin der LINKE ging früher, mit der Folge, dass ihr eigener Antrag zu kostenlosen Schulmittagsessen nicht verhandelt werden konnte (er wurde in die Fraktion gezogen).

Es gab eine lange Anhörung zu Plänen, zumindest den Rand des ehemaligen Sportplatzes der TiHo zu bebauen. Die Verwaltungsvorlage zu Fahrradstraßen im Stadtbezirk wurde von der Tagesordnung genommen, die Anfragen wieder nur schriftlich beantwortet. Der Rest war mehr oder minder Harmonie, nur das Thema E-Scooter brachte ein bisschen Aufregung.

Und in Zukunft versuche ich meine Beiträge zeitnäher zur jeweiligen Veranstaltung abzufassen.

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