Between 2005 and 2007, several exhibitions, a book, and a film documentary titled Too Much Future shone a spotlight on a previously largely unexplored chapter of East German subculture and counterculture. Since then, the monotheistic cult surrounding the West German underground of the 1980s has been accompanied by several publications on the subject of punk rock in the GDR.
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Among the many books, a few have appeared that neither mythically nor autosuggestively sing the eternal refrain of worn-out punk clichés, nor then reflexively launch into a victim lament. The underground was never a strategy, at least not the punk underground. It was intoxication, elemental violence, and an immoral feast for the senses, for which one paid because one gave nothing to the state.
Dance Communism exclusively portrays punk bands that operated illegally and consistently countered the obligation to be classified by the state with a playful instinct that didn't care about permission. To capture the soundscapes of a counterculture in texts, it's not enough to simply recount band histories.
The individual portraits make a passionate attempt to create a kaleidoscope that reflects the bands both through themselves and through their cultural and sociocultural environment.
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May 2025
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