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Beyond No Future

Beyond No Future

Shahan, Cyrus M.

Hardcover

Pop/RockPunkMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1501314084
ISBN13: 9781501314087
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 8 2016
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The first book of its kind in English, Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk explores the texts and contexts of German punk cultures. Notwithstanding its no future sloganeering, punk has had a rich and complex life in German art and letters, in German urban landscapes, and in German youth culture. Beyond No Future collects innovative, methodologically diverse scholarly contributions on the life and legacy of these cultures. Focusing on punk politics and aesthetics in order to ask broader questions about German nationhood(s) in a period of rapid transition, this text offers a unique view of the decade bookended by the German Autumn and German unification.

Consulting sources both published and unpublished, aesthetic and archival, Beyond No Future's contributors examine German punk's representational strategies, anti-historical consciousness, and refusal of programmatic intervention into contemporary political debates. Taken together, these essays demonstrate the importance of punk culture to historical, political, economic, and cultural developments taking place both in Germany and on a broader transnational scale.

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