Dunja Brill

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Dunja Brill is a German media and cultural scientist who researches subcultures in particular .

Life

Brill studied Psychology at the University of Bonn ( Diploma 2000) and International Journalism at Edinburgh Napier University ( Master of Arts 2001). In 2005 she obtained a European Doctorate in media and cultural studies from the University of Sussex (subject: Subversion or Stereotype? The Gothic Subculture as a Case Study of Gendered Identities and Representations ).

Her focus is on subcultures as well as media and gender . Brill published specialist articles a. a. in the Journal der Jugendkulturen and in the Humboldt Spectrum . Meetings and conferences took her to Italy, the United Kingdom and the USA. She is currently researching at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the DFG - Postdoc project Sound battles - masculinity, violence and 'whiteness' in extreme subcultural music scenes (in cooperation with Beate Binder ).

She gave interviews to several newspapers and radio stations. a. Radio Corax .

Brill, currently living in Berlin , is a part of the British and German Gothic scene. She was the singer of the band Lie Still and wrote a. a. for the trendy magazines Sonic Seducer , Neurostyle and Black .

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Your dissertation Subversion or Stereotype? The Gothic Subculture as a Case Study of Gendered Identities and Representations (2006) met with great public and specialist interest. So was u. a. reported on her research results in the British daily newspapers The Independent and The Guardian . The reviewer Antje Pfeffer from the Journal der Jugendkulturen ( Archive of Youth Cultures ) found the results “highly interesting” and very authentic. Brill observes the scene with curiosity and openly, it stays “balanced” and at the same time maintains a “critical distance”. The dissertation is a qualitative and media-critical study that refers to Germany (Berlin / Cologne) and Great Britain (Brighton / Edinburgh). Brill combined discourse-analytical , media-centric and ethnographic approaches. The following three complexes were mainly analyzed: Gender-specific representation of the Gothic style in the media, the relationship between gender self-styling practices and subjective self-perception and the relationship between the representations and the subcultural hierarchy.

Brill (2007) specifically examined what she called “fetish lolitas ”, the Gothic scene. She stated that more and more sexualized clothing and fetish clothing were to be found. Women wore corsets , nylon stockings , suspenders and lingerie combined with high heels . The effects of power promote women's self-confidence . In this context, Brill speaks of “ style icons”. However, women not only competed with their own gender, but also with more feminine men, which ultimately leads to the fact that " femininity [of women in contrast to men as] appears to be a quasi-natural necessity".

In Brills (2008) a comprehensive and positive ( Times Higher Education , Choice Reviews Online et al.) Study on Gothic culture, an ethnographic approach was again pursued. In the opinion of Catherine Spooner, the work is suitable for scientists as well as for members of the scene and represents an important corrective to previous representations. Unlike Spooner in her research, Brill opted methodically - like Sara Martin - for participant observation . Brill identified a “cult of femininity” for both genders, which, however, led to the existing gender roles being retained . She based her work on the revision of the concept of subculture by Paul Hodkinson (2002).

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Articles in anthologies and conference volumes

  • Gender, Status and Subcultural Capital in Gothic Style . In: Paul Hodkinson, Wolfgang Deicke (Ed.): Youth Cultures. Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes (= Routledge Advances in Sociology ). Routledge, London 2007, ISBN 0-415-37612-2 , p. 111 ff.
  • Fetish Lolitas or Young Witches? Girls and women in the Gothic scene . In: Gabriele Rohmann (Ed.), Krasse Töchter. Girls in youth cultures . Archiv der Jugendkulturen KG, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86546-045-5 , p. 55 ff.
  • To death and the devil? The 'evil' in the Gothic subculture . In: Silke Seybold (Ed.): All about Evil - Das Böse . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3780-9 , p. 170 ff.
  • 'Operation Tough Guy'. The performance and media representation of masculinity in the electro and industrial scene . In: Martina Oster, Waltraud Ernst , Marion Gerards (eds.): Performativity and performance. Gender in music, theater and media art (= Focus gender . Volume 8). Lit-Verlag, Hamburg u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0660-6 , pp. 119 ff.
  • Acoustic violence. Gender-related self-constructions in 'extreme' music using the example of electro / industrial culture . In: Marianne Bröcker (Ed.): Reports from the National Committee of the Federal Republic of Germany in the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM / UNESCO) . Volume 16/17, Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2009, p. 63 ff.
  • Black metal is war'. The mythical reconstruction of martial 'white' masculinity in subcultural music scenes . In: Katja Kauer (ed.): Pop and masculinity. Two phenomena in precarious interaction? (= Cultural Studies . Volume 5). Frank & Timme, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86596-203-4 , pp. 119 ff.
  • Transgression without queer - the staging of martial masculinity as 'anti-drag' in extreme subcultural music . In: Ilse Nagelschmidt , Kerstin Wojke, Britta Borrego (eds.): Interdisciplinary colloquium on gender research. The contributions. Interdisciplinary disputes about methods of gender research (= Leipzig Gender Critique . Volume 2). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60126-6 .
  • Powerful sounds - masculinity, whiteness and class in the industrial and extreme metal subculture . In: Paula-Irene Villa , Julia Jäckel, Zara S. Pfeiffer, Nadine Sanitter, Ralf Steckert (Eds.): Banale Fights? Perspectives on Popular Culture and Gender . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18213-1 , p. 23 ff. Doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-531-18982-6_2

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  1. ↑ a b Micah L. Issitt : Goths. A Guide to an American Subculture . Greenwood, Santa Barbara 2011, ISBN 978-0-313-38604-6 , p. 37.
  2. ↑ a b c Antje Pfeffer: Dunja Brill: Subversion or Stereotype? The Gothic Subculture as a Case Study of Gendered Identities and Representations (review). In: Journal der Jugendkulturen 12/2007, pp. 98-100.
  3. ↑ Catherine Spooner : Forget Nu Rave, We're Into Nu Grave !. Styling Gothic in the Twenty-first Century . In: Justin D. Edwards , Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (Ed.): The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture. Pop Goth (= Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature . 8). Routledge, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-80676-3 , p. 186.
  4. ↑ Laura Barton: I have seen the future - and it's goth . In: The Guardian , March 21, 2006.
  5. ↑ a b Deborah Linton, Olly Rowse: Don't mock goths: future's bright for the men and women in black . In: The Independent , March 21, 2006.
  6. ↑ Katharina Liebsch : Scenes, styles, tribes and gangs: the world of youth cultures . In the S. (Ed.): Youth sociology. About adolescents, teenagers and new generations (= textbooks and handbooks in sociology ). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-59113-2 , p. 102 f.
  7. ↑ Richard Griffiths: The gothic folk devils strike back! Theorizing folk devil reaction in thepost-Columbine era . In: Journal of Youth Studies 13 (2010) 3, p. 403. doi : 10.1080 / 13676260903448021
  8. ↑ Florian Heesch : D. Brill: Goth Culture. Gender, Sexuality and Style . In: Annette Kreuziger-Herr , Nina Noeske , Susanne Rode-Breymann , Melanie Unseid (eds.): Gender studies in musicology - quo vadis? Festschrift for Eva Rieger on her 70th birthday (= Yearbook Music and Gender . Volume 3). Ohms, Hildesheim u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14494-8 , p. 174.
  9. ^ Paul Hodkinson : Beyond spectacular specifics in the study of youth (sub) cultures . In: Journal of Youth Studies 15 (2012) 5, pp. 563 f., 563. doi : 10.1080 / 13676261.2012.663891
  10. ^ A b Catherine Spooner : Goth Culture: Gender, Sexuality and Style . In: Times Higher Education , May 28, 2009.
  11. ↑ RC Raby: Brill, Dunja: Goth culture: gender, sexuality and style . In: Choice Reviews Online 47 (2009) 4. doi : 10.5860 / CHOICE.47-2305
  12. ↑ Catherine Spooner: Goth Cultures . In: David Punter (Ed.): A New Companion to the Gothic (= Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture ). Wiley-Blackwell, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-405-19806-6 , pp. 354 ff.
  13. ^ A b Maria Mellins : Vampire Culture . Bloomsbury, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-8578-5089-8 , p. 42.
  14. ^ Ross Haenfler : Subcultures. The basics . Routhledge, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-415-53031-6 , p. 50.
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SURNAME Brill, Dunja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century