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.

Autorentext

Cyrus M. Shahan is Assistant Professor of German at Colby College, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction, Representing 'No Future' 1. Punk Poetics 2. Psycho Punk and the Legacies of State Emergency 3. Post-Punk Poaching, Subversive Consumerism and Reading for Anti-Racism 4. After Punk: Cynicism and Social Corruptibility