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Punk Music: Political Formation in the life

This paper presents the final results of the research developed during my Master’s degree in Musicology at the Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal. It aims to understand how punk music could influence the political training of individuals who later become members of anarchist or libertarian organizations that intend to transform the social reality. The main theoretical framework used is Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of production of subjectivity. This work has an ethnographic framework based on a case study in Casa Viva, a libertarian social space in Oporto, Portugal, which is the setting of many cultural activities, including punk concerts. The fieldwork has two main aims and techniques: a) the participant observation in punk concerts, where methods such as field notes and audiovisual recordings are used in order to understand the social relations and the performative places where punk music is created; b) the dialogical methodology of knowledge building, proposed by Samuel Araújo and the group Musicultura, which I participated in 2006 and 2007 as a junior researcher. The latter aims to organize a group of discussion in Casa Viva, through which I intend to open the floor for promote the building of the collective knowledge.

Negotiating the Revolt: Punk in Times of Political Transformation

CfP, 2024

The conference is organized by the Institute of Czech History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University alongside the project Negotiating the Revolt in Czech and Slovak Postsocialist Transition, which is supported by the Czech Science Foundation and carried out in collaboration with the Archive of Czech and Slovak Subcultures, the Centre for the Study of Popular Culture and the Punk Scholars Network Slovak and Czech. Date: May 16 – 18, 2025 Venue: Eternia, Nádražní 3, Prague 5, Czech Republic: https://www.eterniasmichov.com/ Conference organizers: Karolina Válová, Miroslav Michela, Ondřej Daniel, Marta Harasimowicz Email contact: punkconferenceprague@gmail.com

On Being a Punk and a Scholar: a Reflexive Account of Researching a Punk Scene in Russia

Ethnographic studies of youth subcultures, scenes and urban tribes often rely on insiders’ accounts, where researchers investigate a social environment of which they are presently or formerly members. This approach raises important questions about the positionality of the researcher, and the reflexivity, epistemology and ethics of an ethnographic investigation, as different roles and engagement with the field, as well as the very identity of the “field” itself, no longer fit into the methodological framework of traditional ethnography. This article explores the difficulties that arise during ethnographic research on one’s own social world. I was actively involved in the Russian punk scene before pursuing my academic career in England, and in the framework of a research project on post-socialist punk at the University of Warwick, I went back to study this milieu as a “field” in two different sites in 2009 and in 2010. The article shows the complexity of researching one’s own subculture and demonstrates that active discentring of the “knowing authority” in studying one’s own “tribe” necessarily involves a transformation of its main research paradigms, where epistemological and ethical issues appear to be rearranged in a new way which dramatically affects the methodological foundations of such an investigation.

Punk is a Symptom ” : Intersections of Philosophy and Alternative Culture in the 80 ’ s Slovenia

2013

All over Former Yugoslavia the eighties were marked by an appearance of a great number of new alternative culture movements, while at the same time significant new ideas were introduced in the field of philosophy and theory in general. The proposed paper focuses on a particular example of dialogue between theory and culture in this period: on the three special issues of the journal Problemi in 1981, 1982 and 1983 that were dedicated to the punk movement, i.e. the so-called Punk Problemi. It begins by analyzing the editorial to the first of these three issues, and its alleged “agreement” with the thesis that punk should be viewed as a symptom. The discrepancy between the critics of punk and the viewpoint of the editorship of the Problemi and their contributors is further explored through the analysis of the articles published in the three special editions. Finally the Punk Problemi are juxtaposed to developments in theory in the early eighties, especially the works on the theory of i...