Poor, but sexy : reflections on Berlin scenes / Geoff Stahl (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stahl, Geoff, 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Germany--Berlin--21st century.

Popular culture.

Berlin (Germany)--Social life and customs--21st century.

Berlin (Germany).

Germany--Berlin.

Physical Description:

225 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bern, Switzerland ; New York : Peter Lang, [2014]

Summary:

Poor, But Sexy: Reflection on Berlin Scenes offers readers a varied cross-section of the city's scenes, providing a prismatic view of one of Europe's mythical cultural capitals. The authors gathered here address a range of topics, including Turkish gay clubs, queer filmmaking, record labels, the legendary Russendisko, electronic music festivals, the city's famous techno scene, the clandestine dimensions of its nighttime club culture, and the fraught emergence of the Mediaspree. With the shifting context of post-Wende Berlin its backdrop, this collection puts into rellef an electic array of case studies, presenting to readers interested in exploring urban issues a number of critical and analytical perspectives on the city's cultural life as it moves into the twenty-first century. Poor, But Sexy is an important contribution to the critical analysis of the cultural spaces in the city, and allows readers access to one of the few scholarly overviews of Berlin's varied cultural life available in English. Book jacket.

Contents:

Out on the Scene: Queer Migrant Clubbing and Urban Diversity / Kira Kosnick Kosnick, Kira 27

Russendisko and the German-Russian Folklore Lineage / David-Emil Wickström Wickström, David-Emil 43

The Reassessment of all Values: The Significance of New Technologies and Virtual/Real Space in the Trans-National German Pop Music Industries / Christoph Jacke Jacke, Christoph, Sandra Passaro Passaro, Sandra 59

The Scene of Scenes: Berlin Underground Parties, Neither Movement nor Institution / Carlo Nardi Nardi, Carlo 83

Berlin Capitalism: The Spirit of Urban Scenes / Anja Schwanhäuser Schwanhäuser, Anja 103

Field Configuring Events: Professional Scene Formation and Spatial Politics in the Design Segment of Berlin / Bastian Lange Lange, Bastian 123

Berlin's Underground Filmmakers & Their (Imagined) Scenes, Inside and Beyond the Wall / Ger Zielinski Zielinski, Ger 145

Breaching the Divide: Techno City Berlin / Beate Peter Peter, Beate 173

Getting By and Growing Older: Club Transmediale and Creative Life in the New Berlin / Geoff Stahl Stahl, Geoff 191

The Unbearable Hipness of Being Light: Welcome to Europe's New Nightlife Capital / Enis Oktay Oktay, Enis 211.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

303431339X

9783034313391

OCLC:

879469435

Publisher Number:

99959324860