1980s East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, or GDR) gave birth to one of the most raucous, explosive, fun protest movements in history: Kirche von Unten (KvU).

s media scholar Richard Campbellexplains, punk music, which "has generallybeen characterized by loud, unpolished distortions, a jackhammer beat, primal vocal screams,crude aggression, and defiant or comic lyrics, ... attempted to recover the early amateurish and offensive energies of rock and roll" (91).Punk music was identifiable by its... See more