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This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross-cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour and spatial arrangements.Using the toolboxes of media and discourse analysis, hegemony theory, ethnography, critical social psychology and cultural studies more broadly, the book surveys and theorizes the forms, the implications and the ambiguities and limits of anti-elitist formations in different parts of the world. Anti-elitist sentiments colour the contemporary political conjuncture as much as they shape pop cultural and media trends. Populists, right-wing authoritarian ones and others, direct their anger at cultural, political and, sometimes, economic elites while supporting other elites and creating new ones. At the same time, "elitist" knowledge and expertise, decision-making power and taste regimes are being questioned in societal transformations that are discussed much more positively under headlines such as participation or democratization. The book brings together a group of international, interdisciplinary case studies in order to better understand the ways in which the battle cry "against the elites" shapes current conjunctures and possible future politics, focusing on themes such as nationalist political discourse in India, Austria, the UK and Hungary, labour struggles and anti-oligarchy rhetoric in Russia, tax-avoiding elites and fiscal imaginaries, working-class agency, Melania Trump as a celebrity narrative in Slovenia, aesthetic codes of the Alt-Right, football hooliganism in Germany, "hipster hate" in German political discourse or the politics of expertise and anti-elite iconography in high fashion internationally. The book is intended for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross-cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour and spatial arrangements.Using the toolboxes of media and discourse analysis, hegemony theory, ethnography, critical social psychology and cultural studies more broadly, the book surveys and theorizes the forms, the implications and the ambiguities and limits of anti-elitist formations in different parts of the world. Anti-elitist sentiments colour the contemporary political conjuncture as much as they shape pop cultural and media trends. Populists, right-wing authoritarian ones and others, direct their anger at cultural, political and, sometimes, economic elites while supporting other elites and creating new ones. At the same time, "elitist" knowledge and expertise, decision-making power and taste regimes are being questioned in societal transformations that are discussed much more positively under headlines such as participation or democratization. The book brings together a group of international, interdisciplinary case studies in order to better understand the ways in which the battle cry "against the elites" shapes current conjunctures and possible future politics, focusing on themes such as nationalist political discourse in India, Austria, the UK and Hungary, labour struggles and anti-oligarchy rhetoric in Russia, tax-avoiding elites and fiscal imaginaries, working-class agency, Melania Trump as a celebrity narrative in Slovenia, aesthetic codes of the Alt-Right, football hooliganism in Germany, "hipster hate" in German political discourse or the politics of expertise and anti-elite iconography in high fashion internationally. The book is intended for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Die Oral History einer Subkultur»Ich bin neu in der Hamburger Schule und vielleicht komm'' ich hier nie wieder raus«, sangen Tocotronic 1995 und betonten damit – wenn auch mit kritischem Unterton – ihre Zugehörigkeit zu einer Szene, die damals zum popkulturellen Kanon gehörte. Heute ist der Diskurspop aus Hamburg Geschichte – seine Bedeutung für die deutsche Popkultur ist jedoch noch immer zu spüren.Dieses Buch nähert sich der Hamburger Schule in ausführlichen Interviews mit zehn Protagonistinnen, die als Musikerinnen, Labelbetreiberinnen, Konzertveranstalterinnen, DJs oder Journalistinnen die Szene maßgeblich prägten. Bislang wurde die Bedeutung von Frauen für die Entwicklung dieser Subkultur sträflich vernachlässigt, zu sehr standen Bands wie Tocotronic, Blumfeld oder Die Sterne im Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Die Hamburger Schule war jedoch immer mehr als nur eine Musikszene, wie die Interviewpartnerinnen betonen. Eine Vernetzung von politischen Diskursen und Alltagspraxen zeichnete sie aus, die im DIY-Gedanken der eigenen Kneipe, des eigenen Clubs, Labels oder Studios ihre Verwirklichung fand und bis heute in den (stadt)politischen Kämpfen in Hamburg spürbar ist.Auch aktuelle Debatten hat die Hamburger Schule vorweggenommen, etwa die Auseinandersetzung um das Verhältnis von Kulturarbeit und Prekarität oder die Problematik des Älterwerdens mit Pop. Dennoch sparen die interviewten Frauen nicht mit Kritik, thematisieren die reproduzierten Geschlechterrollen und stellen die Frage nach dem Scheitern der Szene. »Lass uns von der Hamburger Schule reden« ist somit keine verklärende Rückschau geworden, sondern eine kritische Annäherung an einen Zusammenhang, der wichtige gesellschaftspolitische Fragen stellte, ohne immer eine Antwort parat zu haben.Die Protagonistinnen: Myriam Brüger, Ebba Durstewitz, Bianca Gabriel, Charlotte Goltermann, Bernadette La Hengst, Almut Klotz, Elena Lange, Julia Lubcke, Katha Schulte und Patricia Wedler aka DJ Patex.