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Punk Reading Questions

Punk Reading Questions. What is Amiga (193)? What role did it play in the public-ation or making public of music in the GDR?.

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Punk Reading Questions

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  1. Punk Reading Questions

  2. What is Amiga (193)? What role did it play in the public-ation or making public of music in the GDR? • Official record company of the GDR and the only way to get your music recorded and distributed within the country. With the support of the government, it attempted to regulate the types of music that youth could hear (note the 60/40 split) but it also listened to youth to an extent and tried to co-opt punk by making distribution available to bands who cooperated.

  3. (194) How do you understand “everyday forms of resistance”? How does punk music fit into this category? • Simpson quotes Dirks, Eley, and Ortner at the top of 194 indicating that resistance can be found both in large social movements and everyday practices. Punk music assisted in self-definitions that constituted such everyday resistance.

  4. (194) What does popular culture accomplish or do for its consumers or adherents? • Provides the space for self-definition in opposition to prescribed modes of behavior.

  5. (197) Simpson indicates that it was characteristic of punk internationally to express skepticism about or lack of interest in the future. How did this “no future” attitude sit with those controlling the GDR state? • Counterargued the optimism required for the building and improvement of the socialist state.

  6. (199) Why was Aljosha Rompe (Feeling B) “untouchable” as far as the authorities were concerned? • Had a Swiss passport and his stepfather was an important scientist. I just want them to pay attention to some of the restrictions that those who were not Aljosha lived under.

  7. (202) What was the appeal to the “disgruntled” of “Mix mir einen Drink” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H80WDlfkZAAHow would you describe the style of this tune if you had not been told it was a punk song? • The song suggests alcohol as a means of escaping [an intolerable] reality or location. They go through several styles in the linked version, one is very folksy and another more like what we understand as punk. Flake said that they wanted to be folksy and not good.

  8. (202) Why is “FDJ punk” an insult? • The FDJ seal of approval indicated conformity and not resistance.

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