Overview
- Brings together insights from academic and non-academic writings on Bohemia
- Argues that the artistic bohemian lifestyle community is neither anti-bourgeois nor ordinary
- Provides rich insights into the lives of working artists and their impact on the urban environment
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- The Study of Bohemian Communities
- Fishtown Kensigton
- Historical and Sociological Work on Bohemia
- The Nature of Bohemia
- History and Geography of Bohemia
- Maintaining Continuity with Bohemian Tradition
- Fishtown_Kensington’s Artistic Community
- Cultural and Political Movements and Communities
- Bohemian But Not Anti-Bourgeois
- Bohemian Artistic Lifestyle Community
- Artistic and Personal Creativity
- urban geography and urbanism
- urban politics
About this book
This book presents an investigation and assessment of an artistic community that emerged within Philadelphia’s Fishtown and the nearby neighborhood of Kensington. The book starts out by examining historical and sociological work on bohemia, and then provides a detailed history of greater Philadelphia and the Fishtown/Kensington region. After analyzing the ways in which Fishtown/Kensington’s artistic community maintains continuity with bohemian tradition, it demonstrates that this community has decoupled traditional bohemian practices from their anti-bourgeois foundation. The book also demonstrates that this community helped generate and maintains overlapping membership with a larger community of hipsters. It concludes by defining the area's artistic community as an artistic bohemian lifestyle community, and argues that the artistic activities and cultural practices exhibited by the community are not unique, and have significant implications for urban artistic policy, and for post-industrial urban society.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Bohemia: A Case Study of an Artistic Community in Philadelphia
Authors: Geoffrey Moss, Rachel Wildfeuer, Keith McIntosh
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18775-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18774-3Published: 29 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18775-0Published: 10 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2212-6368
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6376
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 126
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Studies, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Politics