Beyond No Future

Cyrus M. Shahan is Assistant Professor of German at Colby College, USA. Seth Howes is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Missouri, USA. Mirko M. Hall is Associate Professor of German Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures at Converse College, USA.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Punk Matters: An Introduction
(Seth Howes, University of Missouri; Mirko M. Hall, Converse College; Cyrus Shahan, Colby College)

Punk Spaces

2. “I’d rather choose the curb”: Topographical Writing in Recent German Punk
(Dennis Borghardt, University of Duisburg–Essen)
3. Beyond Boredom: Engaged Living in the Wilhelmine Wandervögel and West German Punk
(Matthew Sikarskie, Michigan State University)

Performative Politics

4. The Politics of Lyrics in German Punk
(Peter Brandes, Ruhr-University Bochum)
5. Subcultural Studies between the Blocs: Unexpected Cosmopolitanism and Stubborn Blind Spots in East German Theories of Punk
(Seth Howes, University of Missouri)

Against Fascism

6. Nazi Signifiers and the Narrative of Class Warfare in British Punk
(Karen Fournier, University of Michigan)
7. “1979 Deutschland”: Holocaust, West German Memory Culture, and Punk’s Intervention into the Everyday
(Fabian Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin, and Melanie Eis, University of Cologne)
8. Sex in the Bunker: DAF’s Staging of Punk Pleasure
(Cyrus Shahan, Colby College)
9. Cold Wave: French Post-Punk Fantasies of Berlin
(Mirko M. Hall, Converse College)

10. German Mania: A Coda
(Seth Howes, University of Missouri; Mirko M. Hall, Converse College; Cyrus Shahan, Colby College)

Bibliography
Index