Dr. Robin Kuchar

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C5.210
Fon +49.4131.677-1306, robin.kuchar@leuphana.de
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Professorship for Sociology of the Arts

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Vita

Robin completed his MA studies in Applied Cultural Science in early 2009 by finishing his thesis about Popular Music and Globalization.

In 2017, he completed his phd thesis about the development and transformation of DIY based music venues. Carrying out three case studies of DIY based music clubs in Hamburg-St. Pauli, the analysis focuses changing spatial strategies, identities and self-conceptions of the clubs within the spheres of local scenes, the city and the Music Industries. The related book 'Musikclubs zwischen Szene Stadt und Music Industries. Autonomie, Vereinnahmung, Abhängigkeit' was published in 2020.

Currently, Robin works as Post-Doc Researcher and Lecturer at Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization. His main research interests are Culture and the City, DIY & Underground Scenes, Production of Culture, Music Industries, Livemusic & Music Venues and Cultural Participation.

He is co-series editor of 'Urban Music Studies', member of IASPM, KISMIF and co-initiator of the Urban Music Studies Scholars Network (www.urbanmusicstudies.org).

Apart from Academia, Robin worked as project manager for the ‚Hamburg Day of Music 2012‘ (NGO) and for the mission orientated research project ‘Who is Musicking in Hamburg?’ (2009), initiated by the municipality of Hamburg. For years, he was/ is organizing concerts, running a DIY Music Label and doing live-sound engineering.

Projects

  1. TrICo Subprojekt - Community Art and Culture
    Timon Beyes (Project manager, academic) , Boukje Sanne Cnossen (Project manager, academic) , Robin Kuchar (Project staff) , Valerie Lana Bartusch (Project manager, academic) , Maximilian Schellmann (Project staff) , Susan Börner (Project staff)
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    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  2. Until Covid-19 do us apart. Music Scenes in Lockdown
    Robin Kuchar (Project staff) , Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Project staff) , Volker Kirchberg (Project staff)
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    Project: Research

  3. Groove the City 2020
    Volker Kirchberg (Project manager, academic) , Robin Kuchar (Project staff) , Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Project staff) , Lisa Gaupp (Project staff)
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    Project: Scientific event

  4. Groove the City 2018
    Volker Kirchberg (Project manager, academic) , Robin Kuchar (Project staff) , Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Project staff) , Lisa Gaupp (Project staff)
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    Project: Scientific event

  5. Urban Music Studies Scholars´Network
    Robin Kuchar (Project manager, academic) , Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Project manager, academic) , Volker Kirchberg (Project manager, academic) , Lisa Gaupp (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Musikclubs zwischen Szene, Stadt und Music Industries: Autonomie, Vereinnahmung, Abhängigkeit.
    Robin Kuchar (Author) , 2020 1 ed. Wiesbaden , 314 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Book › Research

  2. Music City: Musikalische Annäherungen an die kreative Stadt
    Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Editor) , Volker Kirchberg (Editor) , Robin Kuchar (Editor) , 2014 1. ed. Bielefeld , 344 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. From DIY avantgardism to icons of German New Wave:: Einstürzende Neubauten and the legacy of ‘Ingenious Dilletants’
    Robin Kuchar (Author) , 01.01.2024 , in: Rock Music Studies, 11, 1 , p. 71-88 , 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Vom stadträumlichen Pionier zur Kulturstätte inmitten der Pandemie. Musikclubs als (sozial-)räumliche Akteure urbaner Musikökosysteme
    Robin Kuchar (Author) , 01.06.2023 , in: Standort, 47, 2 , p. 127-135 , 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer › peer-review

  3. The “First Ones to Close and Last Ones to Re-Open”: Music Venues, COVID-19 and the Handling of the Crisis
    Robin Kuchar (Author) , Maxine Frey (Author) , Julia Gooß (Author) , Tim Mertens (Author) , 22.06.2022 , in: Journal of World Popular Music, 9, 1-2 , p. 170-196 , 27 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. Music Venues in Transition: States of Autonomy, Dependence and Subcultural Institutionalization
    Robin Kuchar (Author) , 01.01.2020 , in: Todas as Artes, 3, 2 , p. 25-41 , 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Populäre Musik und Kulturmanagement : Komplexität des Punktuellen – oder schlicht Nadeln im Heuhaufen?
    Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Author) , Robin Kuchar (Author) , 01.01.2019 , in: Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement: Kunst, Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Vol. 4 (2018), Heft 2 , p. 197-220 , 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Musikclubs in der Livemusikökologie: Situation und kulturpolitische Implikationen in Zeiten der Pandemie
    Robin Kuchar (Author) , 20.06.2023 Bielefeld , p. 111-122 , 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer › peer-review

  2. Building Scene and Cultural Memory in the Weser Hills.: The Case of Glitterhouse Records and Orange Blossom Special Festival
    Robin Kuchar (Author) , 22.03.2023 Cham , p. 163-178 , 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  3. Independent Music and Independent Music Scenes.: From DIY led Collectives to Individualized Professionals?
    Robin Kuchar (Author) , 26.01.2023 London , p. 567-592 , 25 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  4. Changing Identities of DIY based Music Venues? Clubs between Scene-Traditionalism, Assimilation and ‘Subcultural Institutionalization’
    Robin Kuchar (Author) , 01.07.2018 Porto , p. 157-157 , 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

  5. Local scenes, urban development and the commercialization of live music: Three fields of tension for scene based performing spaces
    Robin Kuchar (Author) , 01.07.2016 , p. 113 , 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

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Activities

  1. Club, Szene und Stadt. Eine Langzeitbetrachtung von Selbstverständnissen und sozialen Umfeldern von Musikclubs
    Robin Kuchar (Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education

  2. Scene – Infrastructure – Ecosystem? Challenges of researching cultural production within increasing social complexity
    Robin Kuchar (Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research

  3. Thinking music scene outside the scene – between understandings of networks, ecosystem, and infrastructure
    Robin Kuchar (Speaker)
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    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  4. Die Beziehung von 'Club, Szene und Stadt'
    Robin Kuchar (Speaker)
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    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  5. Club, Szene und Stadt. Eine Langzeitbetrachtung von Selbstverständnissen und sozialen Umfeldern von Musikclubs
    Robin Kuchar (Speaker)
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    Activity: Conference Presentations › Transfer

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Press / Media

  1. Expertenbeitrag Clubkultur / stern Magazin
    1 time cited

    Press/Media: Press/Media

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Teaching