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Punk Rock and German Crisis

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137337559

ISBN: 978-1-349-46580-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 23, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Representing “No Future”

Shahan, Cyrus

Pages: 1 –22

[Usually associated with the apex of West German domestic terrorism, the year 1977 witnessed another cultural watershed, namely punk, which went on to influence Germany in the 1980s in profound and significant ways. Assaying punk and its investment in cultural representation—art, literature, and...
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Chapter 2Punk Poetics

Shahan, Cyrus

Pages: 23 –51

[Punk never foresaw duration: it refused to look forward and the materiality of its primary evidence is particularly unstable. Thus this chapter does not prize any one phenomena or marker as the key to unlocking punk for the present. Rather, it shows how songs, paintings, and printed material...
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Chapter 3Psycho Punk and the Legacies of State Emergency

Shahan, Cyrus

Pages: 53 –84

[Straining against the strictures of the durable emergency laws and the solidification of conservative power with election of Helmut Kohl in 1982, punk sought to reconstitute the present from its misunderstood ruins. Evidence of this struggle against the parasitic effects of and symbiotic...
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Chapter 4Post-punk Poaching, Subversive Consumerism, and Reading for Anti-racism

Shahan, Cyrus

Pages: 85 –121

[After 1979, the spectacularly anarchic and antagonistic moment of punk and “no future” was no more. Although for Peter Hein and Fehlfarben it was well past its prime, the case of the punk-psychiatrist Raspe demonstrates that disappearing by means of subversive adaptation and destabilized...
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Chapter 5After Punk: Cynicism and Social Corruptibility

Shahan, Cyrus

Pages: 123 –155

[According to Thomas Meinecke’s last essay for Mode & Verzweiflung, his and FSK’s attempt to subvert the sociopolitical mainstream via post-punk reading practices ended in 1987. “Last Contribution: Quarantine” concludes that the “dark belief in the good in politics will have to be, sooner or...

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