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Chapter 1Introduction

Hannerz, Erik

Pages: 1 –12

[It is one of my last days in the field, and I am at a punk festival in a middle-sized Swedish town. Together with a few dozen participants, I am standing in the courtyard in front of the entrance to an old industrial building in the outskirts of the city. By now, I am familiar with most of those...

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Chapter 2The Subcultural, the Mainstream, and the Authentic

Hannerz, Erik

Pages: 13 –37

[The heterogeneities in regard to how punk has been analyzed in the previous research outlined in chapter 1, largely refer to a fallacy within subcultural theory to deal with plural authenticities and plural structures of meanings within the same subculture. From their theoretical beginnings...

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Chapter 3Being Different: A Convex Subcultural Pattern

Hannerz, Erik

Pages: 39 –54

[It is a dark and cold December day and I am standing outside a youth house somewhere in Sweden all puzzled. I have just spent an entire evening with some of the most derided groups of participants within punk— the skate-punks. They are also sometimes referred to by my other informants in this...

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Chapter 4Becoming Free

Hannerz, Erik

Pages: 55 –65

[I sit outside the main venue on a beautiful summer day at one of the largest Scandinavian punk festivals, with the bill including some 20 bands, mostly from Denmark and Sweden but also from Russia, Australia, Germany, Spain, and Holland. Apart from the bands, there are also a number of workshops...

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Chapter 5Remaining Free and Different

Hannerz, Erik

Pages: 67 –84

[I had spent roughly three weeks with a group of participants in one of Indonesia’s biggest cities. This group consisted of a core of a dozen participants who would hang out every day next to a shopping mall, and a dozen more participants who would be present every two days, or on weekends. I had...

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Chapter 6Becoming Different: A Concave Subcultural Pattern

Hannerz, Erik

Pages: 85 –100

[I am standing just outside the provisional entrance to the university gym that will soon host seven punk bands. The group of participants organizing the show is wary, three of the bands playing are from Malaysia and Singapore and they are afraid that the “punks” will give the organizers a bad...

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Chapter 7Collective Freedom

Hannerz, Erik

Pages: 101 –116

[The first time I saw Gustav and his band playing they signaled such youthfulness and energy. It had been quite some time since I had been to a show within the scene where the band jumped around on stage and actually smiled, as if they were having a good time. A year later I see them play again,...

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Chapter 8Doing It Ourselves

Hannerz, Erik

Pages: 117 –133

[One day I received a text message from a group of participants, I had not yet followed. Introducing themselves as the DIY-punks, they had heard about me from their friends in a neighboring city and were eager to talk to me: and so we meet on their regular spot—the beautiful white staircase that...

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Chapter 9The Spatial Performance of Punk

Hannerz, Erik

Pages: 135 –153

[Kusung is sitting next to me on the sidewalk, it is around noon, and he already has a beer in his hand. We are sitting on a busy street in this Indonesian city watching people pass by on their way to the nearby mall, or to grab something to eat from the warungs next to where we sit. Kusung is...

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Chapter 10Structuring the Subcultural

Hannerz, Erik

Pages: 155 –173

[I am at a show at this abandoned industrial warehouse that has been turned into an alternative meeting place for political activists and subcultural participants. Tonight’s a punk show and there’s roughly a hundred people gathered to see three bands: two Swedish bands and one American. Everyone...

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