Punk Rock and German Crisis Adaptation and Resistance after 1977 [Hardcover]

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