PAPER IDEA: Er, well, mostly a title: "Turning Rebellion into Money: The Politics of British Punk"
...this arising out of assisting my ethnomusicologist friend in preparing a lecture on the music of the 1970s, when I filled her in on such details as: David Bowie's embrace of fascism, Eric Clapton's support for Enoch Powell, Rock Against Racism, the Anti-Nazi League, and the use and abuse of Nazi symbolism (particularly by the Sex Pistols, but I think there's a fair amount to be said about Joy Division, given where their name comes from). I'm sure that paper's already been written, but it might be fun.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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