Title: The Connected Lives Of Dutch Punks: Contesting Subcultural Boundaries
Editor/Writer: Kirsty Lohman
Year: 2017
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
Pages: 227
Size: A4
Cover: Softcover
Review:
This is a research project on Punk in the Netherlands, an etnography of the scene with participants spread across the country. It maps the Dutch punkscene historically and geographically. Since the book doesn’t give a fixed definition of punk, she let the participants do. The book has four aims and answers the following questions: What is punk for its Dutch participants? How has this changed over time? What forms of politics are Dutch punks engaged with? How does participants’ punkness interact with and influence other aspects of their lives? There’s a great deal of participants with fictive names (10 of 33) from my hometown Groningen who are met and questioned at a concert in 2011. If you’re into subjective views and need an academic view on DIY punk, then this is for you. Except, the price of the book is absurd. The cheapest I can find is around 70 euro’s. (Update: The writer also used the information for this book for another book called The Punkreader: Research Transmissions From The Local And The Global from 2019 with a huge chapter called: Nothing Like The Rest Of Holland: The Groningen Punk Scene. The information provided is dreadful and with some more research it could be right. Too bad)  PPPPP ***