‘I am a Punk, I Don’t Give a Damn!’ Chez Narcisse: A Rural Place of Resistance

IF 1.4 1区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2023-03-31 DOI:10.1177/17499755231160037

Audrey Tuaillon Demésy

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Chez Narcisse is a bar located on the threshold of the southern Vosges, in the east of France, that has been run by the same family for over 120 years. Its particularity lies in the fact that since the mid 1980s, it has included a concert hall in the garden behind the bar, which punk bands use to play. This place brings together a bar that is anchored in the daily life of the village and these festive events, which always take place on Sunday evenings. Chez Narcisse thus appears as a ‘double’ space that emphasizes the search for independence and culture in a rural environment. An ethnographic research carried out in this place since January 2017 highlights how the DIY ethos is as much a way of doing things as a purpose. The punk ethos of DIY is claimed by the owners, volunteers, musicians and stakeholders of Chez Narcisse in order to build its identity as an ‘alternative’ place well known in the contemporary French punk scene. By taking up James C. Scott’s work, the aim is to understand how Chez Narcisse is a social site of resistance and the role that DIY plays in it. To do this, I will first present the construction of this alternative place which articulates both a local and rural level and a global one (the concerts and the venue attract punks from all over France). A performance upstage testifies to a veiled but very present resistance, based on a family imaginary. The second part aims at highlighting the daily forms of resistance at Chez Narcisse expressed through the use of DIY. Thus, this place would be less ‘punk’ through programmed music than through the use of DIY as a value to defend and a project to share.

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“我是个朋克，我才不管呢!”《纳西斯之家:反抗的乡村

Chez Narcisse是一家位于法国东部南部沃斯日门槛上的酒吧，由同一家族经营了120多年。它的特殊性在于，自20世纪80年代中期以来，它在酒吧后面的花园里有一个音乐厅，朋克乐队用来演奏。这个地方汇集了一个酒吧，它植根于村庄的日常生活和这些节日活动，这些活动总是在周日晚上举行。因此，Chez Narcisse作为一个“双重”空间出现，强调在农村环境中寻求独立和文化。自2017年1月以来，在这个地方进行的一项民族志研究强调了DIY精神既是一种做事方式，也是一种目的。Chez Narcisse的所有者、志愿者、音乐家和利益相关者声称，DIY的朋克精神是为了建立其作为当代法国朋克界知名的“另类”场所的身份。通过学习詹姆斯·C·斯科特的作品，目的是了解Chez Narcisse是一个抵抗的社会场所，以及DIY在其中所扮演的角色。为此，我将首先介绍这个替代场所的建设，它既体现了当地和农村层面，也体现了全球层面（音乐会和场地吸引了来自法国各地的朋克）。一场抢风头的表演证明了一种基于家庭想象的隐蔽但非常现实的抵抗。第二部分旨在强调Chez Narcisse通过DIY表达的日常抵抗形式。因此，通过编程音乐，这个地方将不再是“朋克”，而是通过将DIY作为一种价值观来捍卫和分享。

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Cultural Sociology SOCIOLOGY-

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3.30

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期刊介绍： Cultural Sociology publishes empirically oriented, theoretically sophisticated, methodologically rigorous papers, which explore from a broad set of sociological perspectives a diverse range of socio-cultural forces, phenomena, institutions and contexts. The objective of Cultural Sociology is to publish original articles which advance the field of cultural sociology and the sociology of culture. The journal seeks to consolidate, develop and promote the arena of sociological understandings of culture, and is intended to be pivotal in defining both what this arena is like currently and what it could become in the future. Cultural Sociology will publish innovative, sociologically-informed work concerned with cultural processes and artefacts, broadly defined.