Punks and Skins United: Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture: 5 (Anthropology of Europe, 5)

Germany has one of the liveliest and well-developed punk scenes in the world.However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community.This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany, such as social segmentation, east-west tensions and local politics.Punk in eastern Germany is a reaction to the marginalization of the working class.As a cultural, social and economic niche, punks create their own controversial “substitute society” to compensate for their low status in mainstream society.