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01/06/2023
by R. Kuchar
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New Book: Kultur:Wandel – Impulse für eine zukunftsweisende Kulturpraxis

Kultur:Wandel – Impulse für eine zukunftsweisende Kulturpraxis Wie sieht eine gerechte Kulturpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert aus? Wie kann die kulturelle Infrastruktur zukunftsfähig gehalten und generationen- und gendergerecht erweitert werden? Oder anders: Wie können staatliche und nicht-staatliche Akteur*innen eine Cultural Governance … Continue reading

18/04/2023
by R. Kuchar
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New Book: Popular Music Scenes – Regional and Rural Perspectives

Music Scenes are not an exclusive phenomenon of the metropolis! Popular Music Scenes – Regional and Rural Perspectives edited by Andy Bennett, David Cashman, Ben Green & Natalie Lewandowski, recently published at Palgrave McMillan, represents the first book-length study of … Continue reading

12/04/2023
by R. Kuchar
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New Journal: DIY, Alternative Cultures, & Society

On April 7th, our colleagues of KISMIF launched the new journal DIY, Alternative Cultures, & Society. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/DIY DIY, Alternative Cultures, & Society is the first academic journal dedicated to the theme of DIY (do-it-yourself) and alternative cultures. It is a … Continue reading

03/11/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Book: Socio-Spatial Developments of Underground Music Venues

Taking into account broader processes of urban regeneration, the new book by Robin Kuchar combines the appearance of a more and more commercialized live music culture and changing spatial strategies of DIY scenes to examine how originally DIY and Underground based … Continue reading

03/10/2020
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Deindustrialisation and Popular Music

Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere by Giacomo Bottà The book is a comparative study of deindustrialisation and popular music in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino, and Manchester. In these cities, during the late 1970s and early 1980s,punk and … Continue reading

05/11/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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This Must Be The Place – An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Venues

This Must Be The Place by Robert Kronenburg is the first architectural history of popular music performance space, describing its beginnings, its different typologies, and its development into a distinctive genre of building design. More here

29/09/2019
by Alenka Barber-Kersovan
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Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue on The Arts and the City

This special issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs aims is calling for original papers that will empirically examine or conceptually extend the understanding of the connections between the arts and the city. The special issue will bring together scholars … Continue reading