Full Description
This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal, to emergent, to embedded. Through secondary research, observation and 30 original interviews, each chapter analyses one of 15 creative cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dusseldorf, New York, London, Manchester, Cologne, Washington DC, Detroit, Berlin, Glasgow, Olympia (Washington), Portland (Oregon), Moscow and Istanbul) and assesses the contemporary situation in each in the post-subcultural era of digital and internet technologies. The book challenges existing subcultural histories by examining less well-known scenes as well as exploring DIY "best practices" to trace a template of best approaches for sustainable, independent, locally owned creative enterprises.
Contents
Preface Part 1: Creative Self-Reliance in the Post-War Period 1. We Couldn't Get the Door Closed: San Francisco since 1955 2. More Love House Than Can Ever Be Repaid: Los Angeles since 1955 3. We Had to Make It Up: Dusseldorf after 1960 4. I Can Do That: New York after 1975 Part 2: DIY and Entrepreneurship in the 1970s and 80s 5. There Are No Barriers: London after 1976 6. A Radical Change of Gear: Manchester since 1980 7. It Was Not a Competition: Cologne after 1980 8. Maybe I Can Change a Block: Hard Core and Straight Edge in DC after 1979 9. We Felt Like It Was Our Space: Detroit since 1987 Part 3: DIY in the Age of Neo-liberal Capitalism 10. Poor but Sexy: Berlin after 1989 11. It's Going to Happen: The Glasgow Art and Music Scene since 1990 12. Rebel Girl You Are My World: Riot Grrrl in Olympia, Washing after 1991 13. This Locality Moves to the Internet: Moscow since 2000 14. The Power is Stronger These Days: Istanbul since 2013 Conclusion
