Punk Rock and German Crisis

Adaptation and Resistance after 1977

C. Shahan

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781137343666
• eBook ISBN: 9781137337559
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Literature General

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.

INDEX

Page numbers in italics refer to figures.

1968, see student movements

1977, see “no future”; progress; terrorism; time

Adorno, Theodor

Aesthetic Theory, 25, 39–40, 45–9, 58–9, 77, 96, 139

and affirmative art, 7

on jazz, 6–7

“Le prix du progrès,” 8, 78, 99

Minima Moralia, 53, 62, 66–70, 73–5, 79

and music, 6–7, 9, 86

see also aesthetics

aesthetics, 6, 12, 18, 19, 23–51, 36, 46, 48, 56–7, 62, 66–7, 82, 102–3, 108, 112, 117

détournement, 30–1, 37, 42–5, 144

and institutionality, 3–6, 28–34, 41, 44–5, 60–83, 128, 141

and lying, 31–2, 78, 85, 139, 149

and motion, 62, 66, 76–7, 82–4

and normalization, 94

tensions in, 45, 86

and violence, 20, 27, 32, 38, 53–84, 56, 57, 104–9

see also music; production; time; United States of America; Vergangenheitsbewältigung

affect, 67, 96, 120, 125

and 1968, 43, 53

and aesthetics, 37, 142

as boredom, 32, 128, 139, 144

as hate, 21, 73, 82, 130–5, 137, 143–9, 151–2, 154

and music, 8–10

and production, 99, 118, 125, 135, 146, 150–1

and race, 101, 105–9

and schizophrenia, 67, 72–3, 82

see also “no future...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Introduction: Representing “No Future”
• One   Punk Poetics
• Two   Psycho Punk and the Legacies of State Emergency
• Three   Post-punk Poaching, Subversive Consumerism, and Reading for Anti-racism
• Four   After Punk: Cynicism and Social Corruptibility
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index