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But after the gig
Giacomo Bott is a docent in urban studies at the University of Helsinki. He received his PhD in comparative studies from the IULM University (Milan, Italy). His main interests are urban cultures, popular music, urban branding, interculturalism, creative cities, cultural planning and temporary uses.
Jonathyne Briggs is an associate professor of history at Indiana University Northwest. He received his PhD in history from Emory University and has written extensively on the history of French popular music in the post-war period.
Ivan Gololobov is a research fellow at the department of sociology, University of Warwick. He studied at Kuban State University (Krasnodar, Russia), the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, and the University of Essex. He has previously worked as a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs, the Institute of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflicts (University of Bochum, Germany), and has taught at the University of the West of England. He is currently working on an AHRC-funded project on post-socialist punk.
Matt Grimes is a senior lecturer in music industries and radio at Birmingham City University. He is a member of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research where he is currently undertaking PhD research into British anarchopunk, the punk canon, fandom and popular/cultural memory. Other research interests include radio and marginalised communities and the use of radio as a tool for change.
Martin Hemansk is a socio-cultural anthropologist working as an assistant professor in the faculty of humanities, Charles University in Prague. His research interests, besides youth and youth subcultures, include body modifications and Native American cultures. Since 2008 he has participated in long-term ethnographic fieldwork relating to the Slovak post-rural community. His PhD dissertation addressed questions of transgression, liminality and agency of body-piercing among Czech youth. He also serves as a member of the executive committee of Czech Association for Social Anthropology.
Michelle Liptrot is a part-time lecturer in social sciences at the University of Bolton. Her extensive doctoral research investigates the longevity of the DIY punk subcultural movement in Britain. Michelles interest in the subject stems from her lengthy involvement with this subcultural movement, during which time she ran a DIY distro and played bass in punk bands. Since conducting her research Michelle has ceased to play an active role in DIY punk, though she maintains an interest in both DIY culture and music cultures.
Hedvika Novotn is a social anthropologist and head of department for social studies in the faculty of humanities, Charles University in Prague. Her PhD focused on the construction of individual and collective memory within the Jewish minority in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. Her other interests include the postrural Slovak community and issues of urban anthropology (urban tribes, continuity and discontinuity of city space, etc.). She is the editor-in-chief of the English edition of the scholarly journal Urban People.
Bill Osgerby is professor of media, culture and communications at London Metropolitan University. His research focuses on twentieth-century British and American cultural history, and his books include Youth in Britain Since 1945 (1997); Playboys in Paradise: Youth, Masculinity and Leisure-Style in Modern America (2001); and Youth Media (2004).
John Parham teaches media and cultural studies at the University of Worcester. He has published ecocritical essays on British and Australian punk, looking respectively at X-Ray Spex/The Jam and The Saints. He is currently writing a book entitled Green Media and Popular Culture, as well as being co-editor of the journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.
Hilary Pilkington is professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. She has researched and published widely on late and post-Soviet Russian youth practices, including Russias Youth and its Culture (1994); Looking West? Cultural Globalisation and Russian Youth Cultures (with E. Omelchenko, M. Flynn and E. Starkova, 2002); and Russias Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives (with E. Omelchenko and A. Garifzianova, 2010). She is currently coordinating an EC-funded FP7 MYPLACE project on youth and civic engagement.
Herbert Pimlott is an associate professor of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (Ontario, Canada) whose research and teaching interests include radical journalism, alternative media, political communication and social movement campaigns. Having published articles in journals such as Journalism Practice, Socialist Studies and Media, Culture & Society, his first book, Wars of Position: Marxism Today, Cultural Politics and the Remaking of the Left Press, 197990, will be published in 2015. Three decades after experiencing the structure of feeling of 197683, his career opportunities have kept him out the dock (so far).
Melani Schrter is a lecturer in German at the University of Reading. Her research interests focus on the communicative phenomenon of silence as well as absences in discourses (Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse (2013)), Critical Discourse Analysis of German public/political discourse and, more recently (defiant) discourses within subcultures, especially punk.
Aimar Ventsel is a senior research fellow at the Department of Ethnology, University of Tartu, Estonia. He has conducted fieldwork in Siberia, Kazakhstan and East Germany on underground and mainstream cultures and was associated with the ARHC-funded project Post-socialist Punk: Beyond the Double Irony of Self-abasement (University of Warwick). His publications may be found in the