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Dimensions of Club Culture: Learning from Berlin

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Over the last 30 years, Berlin has become known worldwide for its vibrant club culture and nightlife. The city used to have lots of free space and not much regulation, but real estate speculation and gentrification have led to drastic increases in prices driving independent cultural activities out of the city. Club culture is an essential part of metropolitan nightlife and luckily this has been widely understood, even among politicians. The question remains, however, how to foster and govern a sustainable and yet dynamic, high-quality and diverse club cultural landscape. This chapter sketches an approach to understanding club culture as a multilayered phenomenon which can only be fully understood by combining different disciplinary perspectives or dimensions. Club culture always emerges from subcultures, it functions on an entrepreneurial basis, it is embedded in local scenes and it produces (collaborative) esthetics. The club culture model bridges the gap to other discourses and is supposed to serve policy makers and public administrators for good governance and to spark a more in-depth discourse and further research.

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    Lukas Drevenstedt

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    Anita Jóri

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    Martin Lücke

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Drevenstedt, L. (2020). Dimensions of Club Culture: Learning from Berlin. In: Jóri, A., Lücke, M. (eds) TheNewAge of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture. Music Business Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39002-0_2

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