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There is really not much to read. The title is as bad/good as it gets. Overview of appearances of "negatively decadent" youth in the GDR. Skin heads are rowdi
by cf498 8y ago
There is really not much to read. The title is as bad/good as it gets.
Overview of appearances of "negatively decadent" youth in the GDR.
Skin heads are rowdies prone to be fascists, Metal heads are violent and punks are dirty junk people who smell bad and are anarchists. Also, Teds, Tramper, Grufties and popper are not interested in politics.
- ImaCake 8y agoI did like how "grufties" are labelled as fans of "The Cure", but also death cults.
- SideburnsOfDoom 8y agoPlug "Gruftie" into google translate, German to English, and you get "Goth". "Fans of The Cure and death" is close enough. As I found out at the museum of communism on Leipzig, "Gruftie" means something like "graveyard creature", "crypt kid", etc. In other words, slang term for a Gothic.
- microtherion 8y agoOne amusing detail is how Metal heads are described as having basically "society-conforming attitudes". Judging from my own circle of acquaintances, I think the secret police assessment is quite accurate there.
- coldtea 8y agoIt pretty much is. "Study of 80s metalheads finds that they turn out to be better adjusted than those who listened to other music" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/08/metal-fans-turn-out-to-be-happier-than-everyone-else https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/08/metal-fans-tur... Outside of some darker corners of the genre, most Heavy Metal listeners just like fun, some sex, some drinks, and some noise. They aren't even that big on drugs. And they're quite communal as a scene. Whereas other genres attract more self-destruction, isolation, and negativity.
- SuoDuanDao 8y agoSounds like something out of a clockwork orange.