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SUMMARY:Rock 'n' Roll Book Club
DESCRIPTION:This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: DANIEL RACHEL\, CAROLINE COON & EMMA FORREST\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRock ‘n’ Roll Book Club\nWalthamstow Trades Hall\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n22 January 2026\n7pm \n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel will be joined by writer/artist and Clash manager Caroline Coon in a discussion chaired by novelist/film director Emma Forrest.\n\n\n\n\nOverview\n\n\n\n\n\nRock’s flirtation with fascism examined\n\n\n\nMusic historian Daniel Rachel returns to Walthamstow with his timely book exploring rock and pop music’s fascination with the swastika and the Third Reich \nOver the last seven decades\, some of rock ‘n’ roll’s most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theatre of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall kitting themselves out in Nazi uniforms to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious brandishing swastikas in the pomp of punk\, generations of performers have associated themselves in troubling ways with the aesthetics\, mass hysteria and even ideology of Nazism. Whether shock factor\, stupidity\, or crass attempt at subversion\, rock ‘n’ roll has indulged these associations in a way not accepted by any other artform. But how accountable should fans\, the media\, and the music industry be for what has often seemed a sleazy fascination with the eroticised perversions of a fascist regime? \nIn This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll\, award-winning music historian Daniel Rachel navigates these turbulent waters with extraordinary delicacy and care\, asking us to look anew at the artists that have defined us\, inspired us and given us joy – and consider why so many have been drawn to the imagery of a movement responsible for the twentieth century’s worst atrocities. Alongside a sensitive history of the Holocaust and an examination of the place it holds in our cultural consciousness\, Rachel asks essential questions of actions often overlooked or underplayed\, whilst neither casting sweeping judgement nor offering easy answers. In doing so\, he asks us to reassess the history of rock ‘n’ roll and sheds new light on the grim echoes of the Third Reich in popular culture and the legacy of twentieth (and twenty-first) century history as it defines us today. \nLinks\nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977486173377?aff=oddtdtcreator \nhttps://www.carolinecoon.com/ \nhttps://www.emmaforrest.com/
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