Since the 1970s, deindustrialization – or the massive reduction in industrial production, facilities, and jobs – has fundamentally changed Western societies. This history has tended to be narrated in terms of decline and loss, usually within a local or national locus. Recently, scholars have challenged the isolated directionality of these narratives by bringing global and cross-industrial perspectives to the fore. Deindustrialization instigated an uneven set of experiences in different spaces, and forms of rupture and continuity. Those experiences have been reflected in various forms of pop culture. As examples from Germany and Great Britain demonstrate, Western deindustrialization unfolded in the midst of global, and particularly Asian, industrialization, reinforcing each other, as the example of South Korea illustrates.
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Jeff Hayton: Culture from the Slums. Punk Rock in East and West Germany (Review)
Jeff Hayton’s monograph on punk culture in the Federal Republic and GDR could have become the standard historiographical work were it not for the many small and serious shortcomings and scholarly carelessness that undermine almost every positive aspect of the work. In fact, there is a lack of historical studies on German punk culture: since the early 2000s, only journalistic, cultural and social science works on punk in the Federal Republic have appeared, including publications in English. The steadily growing series of books on punk in the GDR have also lacked historical expertise. The only exception is Florian Lipp’s historical in-depth study on punk and New Wave in the last decade of the GDR, published in 2021, which, as Hayton himself writes, appeared too late to be included in his work. Consequently, the chapters on punk in the GDR do not offer much new information. Continue reading
This Is The Modern World. Pour une Histoire Sociale du Rock
Du 13 au 15 juin 2013, s’est tenu à l’Université de Lille 3 et à l’Aéronef, salle de concert lilloise, un colloque international intitulé “This Is The Modern World. Pour une Histoire Sociale du Rock”/This Is The Modern World. For a Social History of Rock Music”. Il était organisé par Arnaud Baubérot (Paris Est Créteil, CHREC) et Florence Tamagne (Lille 3, IRHIS) qui animent depuis 2011, un séminaire consacré à l’ “Histoire sociale du rock”, en collaboration avec le CHS (Centre d’Histoire Sociale), de Paris 1 (voir billets spécifiques liés au séminaire). En 2012, une journée avait en outre été organisée à Paris Est Créteil et avait montré l’émergence des problématiques liées aux musiques populaires dans université française, et ce dans différentes disciplines (Musicologie, histoire, sciences politiques, littérature…voir billet afférent). Continue reading