I’m going to be responding to the passage on p. 246 that reads “The visible signs of punk in the East […] fantasy of anarchy voiced in music.” I thought it was very interesting to note that “GDR punk was criminalized for stating social facts, such as the existence of the Wall, the Stasi or Neo-fascism.” This fact seems to suggest the presence of a domineering government bent on censorship of the actual things that occur in German society. Also, the fact that it was taboo for German citizens to mention the existence of the “wall” that separated East Germany and West Germany when it was so clearly present just shows an attempt to “cover up” a national division and a need to portray perfection. I thought it would be important to mention the participation of punk rock in protests that preceded the fall of Berlin wall. It is evident that music has a certain power to unite and move people. Finally, I thought it was pretty remarkable that the bands, on top of rebelling against the state with the act of performing music, also were “named names in utterly unambiguous references to the institutions of state socialism.” To me, that is an act of silent rebellion.
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nice comment about the taboo on talking about the wall. it's kind of an interesting case of argument by definition--calling it an "anti-fascist rampart" instead of a "wall." or i think it was also referred to (less ideolgocially) as a "border."
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