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Cover -- Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Punk Rock on the Spree -- Punk Histories of Divided Germany -- Alternative Culture and Authenticity in East and West Germany -- Popular Music and Punk in Postwar Germany -- Methodology, Sources, and Outline -- 1: Origins and Scenes -- Punk Rock and the Search for Authenticity -- The Seventies as Eternal Present: Subcultural Origins in Divided Germany -- Wall City Rock: Punk Scenes in Divided Germany -- Subcultural Convergence? Social Dimensions of German Punk -- Conclusions -- 2: Beliefs and Practices -- "Don't die in the waiting room of the future" -- Anderssein: Authenticity and Difference in East and West -- Dance the Mussolini: Generation, Dictatorship, and Revolt -- Making Songs, Making Styles: Fashion, Music, and Space in Punk Practice -- Conclusions -- 3: Language and Identity -- Sounds for the 1980s -- Black, Red, Gold: Language, Lyrics, and the German Present -- Geniale Dilletanten: Sounds, Instruments, and the German Future -- Nein, Nein, Nein: Alfred Hilsberg and the *Invention* of the Neue Deutsche Welle -- Conclusions -- 4: Wall Jumping and Repression -- Punk Challenge and Regime Response -- Punk Biographies: Understanding Youth, Music, and Subversion -- Wall Jumping and the Western *Discovery* of Eastern Punk -- Hard against Punk: The State Strikes Back -- Conclusions -- 5: Commercialization and Crisis -- Punk and the Challenge of Commercialization -- "Wir Stehn Auf Berlin": Neue Deutsche Welle and the Dilemma of Success -- "Caution New Wave!": Punk, Commercialization, and Crisis -- Conclusions -- 6: Religion and Resistance -- Foot Soldiers of the Opposition -- Cooperation: Punk and the Protestant Churches -- Resistance: AlösA and Punk Protest.

Collaboration: Stasi Revision and Silent Subversion -- Conclusions -- 7: Politicization and Panic -- The Triumph and Tragedy of Hardcore -- "Germany Must Die, So We Can Live": Hardcore, Politicization, and Panic -- "No More Pigs": Moral Panic, Violence, and Martyrdom -- "Jürgen Engler's Party": Fun Punk, Exclusions, and Exhaustion -- Conclusions -- 8: Integration and Collapse -- "Die anderen Bands" and Punk Integration -- Riot in the Zionskirche: Skinhead Violence and State Reversal -- "Born in the G.D.R.": "Die anderen Bands" and State Integration -- whisper &amp -- SHOUT: Eastern Identity and the Limits of Punk Integration -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Memory and Meaning -- "I Seek the GDR": Socialist Collapse and Eastern Punk Memory -- "Because I was there": Punk and Memory in the former Federal Republic -- "History's Being Made": Punk Rock and German History -- Discography -- Bibliography -- 1. Primary Sources -- (i) Archives -- (ii) Fanzines -- (iii) Films -- (iv) Periodicals -- (v) Websites -- 2. Secondary Sources -- Index.

Culture from the Slums explores the history of punk rock in East and West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, examining how youths mobilized music to build alternative communities and identities during the Cold War, and detailing how punk became the site of historical change on both sides of the Iron Curtain.