Saint- Petersburg’s Underground Concert Clubs Visitors as a Modern Post-Subculture

Student: Sadrieva Diana

Supervisor: Svyatoslav Polyakov

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Sociology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The research paper is devoted to the visitors of Saint- Petersburg’s underground clubs. I consider the clubs and its’ visitors informal meetings which are taken place there to be a modern post-subcultural scene. Qualitative data is used in this paper: the semi-structured interviews with people who are involved in visiting the underground clubs. Also, I include the observational data in a form of diaries from visiting these places. The cums that I am studuing are MOD, Ionoteka and CLUB. My main research questions are what are the general behavioral patterns of the Saint- Petersburg underground music scene participants? What common attitudes do they share? Now I can confirm that clubs’ visitors do share such characteristics as specific DIY-practices and cultural consumption needs. Key words: music scenes, post-subcultural theories, youth scenes

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