Co-construction of gender and genre: masculinities in punk rock
Tuesday 4 March 2014 at 5.00 pm
SR 23.02 in Meerscheinschlößl, Mozartgasse 3
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The male domination of punk rock raises the question of how this domination emerged in spite of the egalitarian political stances of active musicians in this scene. I will go beyond the structural underrepresentation of women and ask how the musical genre of punk rock and gender are co-produced. Musical genres can be reconstructed as contingent results of boundary work processes with gendered subjects. Drawing on ethnographic field work and focus group discussions in the punk rock scene in Graz, I will show how punk rock is distinguished from other genres by constructing a specific anti-hegemonic masculinity. The male domination prevalent in most other rock genres is partly reproduced, but still the subject of deep struggles within the scene.
The author
Martin Winter is a sociologist with research interests in music sociology, sociology of food, gender studies and qualitative research methods. He studied at the University of Graz from 2006 until 2013. He was student assis-tant at the Department for Sociology and the Centre for Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz. Since 2013 he has been research assistant at the Department for Sociology at the RWTH Aachen University. In 2014 he is a contract instructor at the Centre for Systematic Musicology, Uni Graz.
