This Ain't Rock'n'Roll - Daniel Rachel in conversation with Pauline Black
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This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich
For over seven decades, generations of artists have forged unsettling connections with the aesthetics, mass hysteria and ideology of Nazism. Whether born of shock, recklessness or outright provocation, rock 'n' roll has harboured these associations more than any other art form.
This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll explores why and how some of rock's most prominent figures flirted with Nazi imagery, from Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall donning SS uniforms, to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious parading swastikas at the height of punk.
But how much responsibility do fans, the media and the music industry bear for what often appeared to be a murky fascination with the eroticised perversions of fascism? Music historian and journalist Daniel Rachel tackles these sensitive questions in This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll, urging us to take a hard look at the artists who shaped us and to ask why they courted controversy through the symbols of a regime responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century. Rachel illuminates the long shadow the Third Reich has cast over pop culture and our collective consciousness.
This event takes place as part of the SEE THE SOUND festival and is organised in cooperation with Freedom Sounds Festival.
Following the book presentation, the film Pauline Black: A 2 Tone Story will be screened at Odeon (walking distance from COMEDIA Theater). Tickets are available at €8 (book presentation only) or €12 as a combo with the film screening.
Everyone is welcome to continue the evening at the aftershow party, featuring special DJ sets by Pauline Black and Daniel Rachel, hosted by Freedom Sounds Crew, at LOTTA, Kartäuserwall 12, 50678 Köln, starting at 22:00.
For over seven decades, generations of artists have forged unsettling connections with the aesthetics, mass hysteria and ideology of Nazism. Whether born of shock, recklessness or outright provocation, rock 'n' roll has harboured these associations more than any other art form.
This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll explores why and how some of rock's most prominent figures flirted with Nazi imagery, from Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall donning SS uniforms, to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious parading swastikas at the height of punk.
But how much responsibility do fans, the media and the music industry bear for what often appeared to be a murky fascination with the eroticised perversions of fascism? Music historian and journalist Daniel Rachel tackles these sensitive questions in This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll, urging us to take a hard look at the artists who shaped us and to ask why they courted controversy through the symbols of a regime responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century. Rachel illuminates the long shadow the Third Reich has cast over pop culture and our collective consciousness.
This event takes place as part of the SEE THE SOUND festival and is organised in cooperation with Freedom Sounds Festival.
Following the book presentation, the film Pauline Black: A 2 Tone Story will be screened at Odeon (walking distance from COMEDIA Theater). Tickets are available at €8 (book presentation only) or €12 as a combo with the film screening.
Everyone is welcome to continue the evening at the aftershow party, featuring special DJ sets by Pauline Black and Daniel Rachel, hosted by Freedom Sounds Crew, at LOTTA, Kartäuserwall 12, 50678 Köln, starting at 22:00.
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Where is it happening?
COMEDIA Theater Köln, Vondelstraße 4-8,Cologne, Germany
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