Veränderung und neue Beständigkeit. Progressive Landdiskotheken in Norddeutschland

From the late 1960s on discotheques dedicated to rock music were founded in the west German province. Even though they were well established and widespread they are hardly mentioned in contemporary sources. In the sociology and history of popular music the phenomenon has so far gone unnoticed. This invisibility is contrasted by statements of former visitors which assign these establishments a big importance. In this article a combined analysis of spatial structure, experiences and musical repertoire is used to extrapolate the happenings in rural rock discotheques and to reveal their relevance for juvenile communitization and social change in the 1970s.