Between the Avant-garde and the Everyday

Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-078-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Protest, Culture & Society

The wave of anti-authoritarian political activity associated with the term “1968” can by no means be confined under the rubric of “protest,” understood narrowly in terms of street marches and other reactions to state initiatives. Indeed, the actions generated in response to “1968” frequently involved attempts to elaborate resistance within the realm of culture generally, and in the arts in particular. This blurring of the boundary between art and politics was a characteristic development of the political activism of the postwar period. This volume brings together a group of essays concerned with the multifaceted link between culture and politics, highlighting lesser-known case studies and opening new perspectives on the development of anti-authoritarian politics in Europe from the 1950s to the fall of Communism and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Timothy

Anton, Lorena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Detlef Siegfried

Introduction

Timothy Brown and Lorena Anton

PART I: AVANT GARDES

Chapter 1. Gruppe Spur: Art as a Revolutionary Medium during the Cold War

Mia Lee

Chapter 2. In Pursuit of the Invisible Revolution: Sigma in the Netherlands, 1966-1968

Niek Pas

PART II: SPECTACLES

Chapter 3. “The Brigade is Everywhere.” Violence and Spectacle in the British Counterculture

Samantha Christiansen

Chapter 4. Corpse Polemics: The Third World and the Politics of Gore in 1960s West Germany

Quinn Slobodian

PART III: SOUNDS

Chapter 5. Communist Youth Groups and Rock Music in Greece in the late 1970s

Nikolaos Papadogiannis

Chapter 6. The Voice of the Other America: African-American Music and Political Protest in the German Democratic Republic

Michael Rauhut

PART IV: SUBCULTURES

Chapter 7.From England with Hate: Skinheads and “Nazi Rock” in Great Britain and Germany

Timothy Brown

Chapter 8. Punk Jihads: Immigrants, Sub-Cultures and Political Violence 1955-2001

Alexander Clarkson

PART V: SPACES

Chapter 9. Red State, Golden Youth: Student Culture and Political Protest in 1960s Poland

Malgorzata Fidelis

Chapter 10. In the Shadow of the Wall: Urban Space and Everyday life in Berlin Kreuzberg

Carla MacDougall

PART VI: NETWORKS

Chapter 11. Between Confrontation and Frivolity? Gender and Militancy in the Czech Alter-globalisation Movement

Marta Kolarova

Chapter 12. Protesting Bodies and Bodily Protest: A plea for a ‘thinking through the body’ in Social Movement Research

Andrea Pabst

Chapter 13. Post-Modern Protest? Minimal Techno and Multitude

Andrew Lison

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brown, Timothy
Timothy Brown is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University. He is the author of Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance (Berghahn, 2009). He is currently writing a monograph entitled 1968: West Germany in the World (Cambridge, 2013).

Anton, Lorena
Lorena Anton is Assistant Professor in Ethnology at University of Bucharest, Romania. Her recent publications and current research interests focus on the history and memory of communism in Europe, the anthropology of reproductive health and contemporary developments in European anthropological sciences.

Timothy Brown is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University. He is the author of Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance (Berghahn, 2009). He is currently writing a monograph entitled 1968: West Germany in the World (Cambridge, 2013).