This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll
Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich

All your faves are way more problematic than you knew. Suffers in the home stretch for absolutely dismissing the genocide in Palestine, with a solitary mention of Zionism and the complete dismissal of, say, Bobby Gillespie’s principled politics.......more

TL,DR: Rock stars who command the adoration of thousands, sometimes feel like Hitler at Nuremberg. Rock stars like to provoke and say tasteless things to generate headlines. Theres a pearl clutching undercurrent which runs throughout this book, that any artist who dares to even mention anything vagu......more

Artister som flirtat med tredje rikets estetik och uttryck är bland det mest intressanta som finns så den här är såklart väldigt läsvärd. På minussidan hamnar dock några lite väl utsvävande teorier om bland annat Kraftwerks Autobahn.......more

the core content of the book is pretty strong. though quite repetitive to read, I think just providing the sheer quantity of use of nazi tropes is the most effective way of demonstrating a problem. that being said, I think a bit more discussion of lesser known symbols (e.g. 1488, sonnenrand) would b......more

Super informative and I highly encourage anyone into punk, youth movements, subculture, or modern history to read this. The structure of each chapter was great, and I was never bored reading this book. I took off two stars for the dismissal of the divisive history between Israel and Palestine and th......more