About this book
Poor, But Sexy: Reflections 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 relief 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.
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Table of contents
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- Poor, But Sexy: Reflections on Berlin Scenes 7
- Acknowledgments 21
- Contributors 23
- KIRA KOSNICK: Out on the Scene: Queer Migrant Clubbing and Urban Diversity 27
- DAVID-EMIL WICKSTRÖM: Russendisko and the German-Russian Folklore Lineage 43
- CHRISTOPH JACKE AND SANDRA PASSARO: The Reassessment of all Values: The Significance of New Technologies and Virtual/Real Space in the Trans-National German Pop Music Industries. 59
- CARLO NARDI: The Scene of Scenes: Berlin Underground Parties, Neither Movement nor Institution 83
- ANJA SCHWANHÄUSSER: Berlin Capitalism: The Spirit of Urban Scenes 103
- BASTIAN LANGE: Field Configuring Events: Professional Scene Formation and Spatial Politics in the Design Segment of Berlin 123
- GER ZIELINSKI: Berlin’s Underground Filmmakers & Their (Imagined) Scenes, Inside and Beyond the Wall 145
- BEATE PETER: Breaching the Divide: Techno City Berlin 173
- GEOFF STAHL: Getting By and Growing Older: Club Transmediale and Creative Life in the New Berlin 191
- ENIS OKTAY: The Unbearable Hipness of Being Light: Welcome to Europe’s New Nightlife Capital 211