TY - JOUR

T1 - Music Venues in Transition

T2 - States of Autonomy, Dependence and Subcultural Institutionalization

AU - Kuchar, Robin

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Taking into account changing spatial structures of local music scenes and processes of music production, urban regeneration, and the commercialization of live music during the last decades, this article examines how ongoing transformations of socio-spatial environments exert influence on originally do-it-yourself music venues as a specific kind of urban music space. Venues are understood as individual actors that develop in relation to their initial spatial and cultural strategies. Therefore, the status of these venues reaches from traditionalist but highly dependent to paradoxical forms of “subcultural institutionalization”. Based on empirical data from three case studies in Hamburg, Germany, fieldwork shows that DIY-driven clubs increasingly become hijacked or taken-over spaces that apply different strategies in order to preserve their idea(l)s of self-governed and collective cultural work.

AB - Taking into account changing spatial structures of local music scenes and processes of music production, urban regeneration, and the commercialization of live music during the last decades, this article examines how ongoing transformations of socio-spatial environments exert influence on originally do-it-yourself music venues as a specific kind of urban music space. Venues are understood as individual actors that develop in relation to their initial spatial and cultural strategies. Therefore, the status of these venues reaches from traditionalist but highly dependent to paradoxical forms of “subcultural institutionalization”. Based on empirical data from three case studies in Hamburg, Germany, fieldwork shows that DIY-driven clubs increasingly become hijacked or taken-over spaces that apply different strategies in order to preserve their idea(l)s of self-governed and collective cultural work.

KW - Cultural studies

KW - Sociology

KW - Culture and Space

KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization

U2 - 10.21747/21843805/tav3n2a2

DO - 10.21747/21843805/tav3n2a2

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 3

SP - 25

EP - 41

JO - Todas as Artes

JF - Todas as Artes

SN - 2184-3805

IS - 2

ER -