Taking into account broader processes of urban regeneration, the appearance
of a more and more commercialized live music culture and changing spatial strategies of DIY scenes, the paper examines how
originally
DIY
based
music
venues
as
spaces
of
alternative
cultural
practices
handle
ongoi
ng
transformations
within
their
surrounding
environment.
Therefore,
the
paper
presents
some
results
gathered
from
three
case
studies
undertaken
in
Hamburg
St.
Pauli
in
2017.
As
the
fieldwork
around
Golden
Pudel,
Molotow
and
Mojo
Club
shows,
each
actor
appl
ies
different
strategies
in
order
to
preserve
their
basing
–
and
individual
-
idea(l)s
of
self
-
governed
cultural
work.
Over
time,
there
can
be
observed
considerable
changes
regarding
self
-
conceptions,
practices
and
socio
-
political
positioning
–
from
strict
ly
adhering
DIY
values
to
take
over
rather
established
roles
in
local
policy.
Developments
lead
to
new
forms
and
levels
of
(in
-
)dependence,
(il)legitimate
professionalization
and
a
kind
of
‘subcultural
institutionalization’,
what
in
matters
of
DIY
spaces
s
eems
to
be
quite
paradoxical.