Burning Down the Haus - Hardcover

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I thought I knew the story of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, but this history of East German punk rock added a new dimension to my understanding of East German society in the 1980s. In some ways, the punks who emerged in East Germany were similar to those in the West - teenagers who felt as though ...

from lisapeet

I liked this quite a lot. It hit a bunch of my sweet spots: history as viewed through a specific lens, particularly events that happened in my adult lifetime, and early punk rock. In this case, as the title would indicate, the book focuses on the fall of the Berlin wall and what part was played b...

from Bricker

Punk rock IS frightening. Not necessarily the music itself, but the message and lifestyle it represents. It's an umbrella term used by people that don't understand the idea of not caring, while at the same time holding very dear a belief system...whether that be political, religious, environmenta...

from techeditor

The subtitle of BURNING DOWN THE HAUS, PUNK ROCK, REVOLUTION, AND THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, may lead you to believe, as it did me, that this book makes the case for punk rockers causing the fall of the Berlin Wall. But no, not exactly. Rather, the messages in punk rock songs and the attitude o...

from janichkokov

I wish this was a more scholarly book, but I will admit I enjoyed it, learned a lot, and suspect that I will be returning to it at some point for band names and places.