Punk Rock and German Crisis: Adaptation and Resistance after 1977 (Studies in European Culture and History)

1977 is usually associated with West German terrorism, but it witnessed another cultural watershed: punk music. A new reckoning with the legacy of political and aesthetic spaces, this book argues the centrality of punk music for understanding crises of state and terrorist violence, American racism and German fascism, and aesthetic production. The year 1977 is usually associated with West German terrorism, but it witnessed another cultural watershed: punk music. Punk Rock and German Crisis asserts, through the lived instance of punk and punk's investment in cultural representation - art, literature, and music - the importance of this sub-cultural moment for understanding the field of contested politics in West Germany. A new reckoning with the legacy of political and aesthetic spaces, this book argues the centrality of punk music for understanding crises of state and terrorist violence, American racism and German fascism, and aesthetic production Cover 1 Title 6 Copyright 7 Dedication 8 Contents 10 List of Figures 12 Acknowledgments 14 List of Abbreviations 16 Introduction: Representing “No Future” 17 One Punk Poetics 39 Two Psycho Punk and the Legacies of State Emergency 68 Three Post-punk Poaching, Subversive Consumerism, and Reading for Anti-racism 100 Four After Punk: Cynicism and Social Corruptibility 137 Notes 170 Bibliography 186 Index 197 Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction: Representing “No Future”....Pages 1-22 Punk Poetics....Pages 23-51 Psycho Punk and the Legacies of State Emergency....Pages 53-84 Post-punk Poaching, Subversive Consumerism, and Reading for Anti-racism....Pages 85-121 After Punk: Cynicism and Social Corruptibility....Pages 123-155 Back Matter....Pages 157-192