This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll (This is Genocide)
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Pop Music, the Swastika & the Third Reich
Magnificently well researched, hugely entertaining and thought provoking, This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll explores one of the last remaining taboos in pop culture and asks why the Nazis, fascism and the Third Reich feature so prominently in the iconography of the artists that defined the twentieth century.
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- ISBN: 9781399635738
- Author: Daniel Rachel
- Pub date: 28.10.25
- RRP: $39.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Daniel Rachel
Birmingham-born Daniel Rachel is a former musician turned award-winning and bestselling author whose works include Too Much Too Young, Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters (a Guardian and NME Book of the Year), Walls Come Tumbling Down: the music & politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge (winner of the Penderyn Music Book prize), Don't Look Back in Anger: the Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia (an Evening Standard and Metro Book of the Year), The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't Split Up? (Guardian Book of the Day and Amazon No. 1 Bestseller), One For The Road: The Life & Lyrics of Simon Fowler & Ocean Colour Scene; Oasis: Knebworth: Two Nights That Will Live Forever (with Jill Furmanovsky; a Sunday Times Bestseller), When Ziggy Played the Marquee by Terry O'Neill (editor) and co-writer of Ranking Roger's autobiography I Just Can't Stop It: My Life in The Beat (a Vive Le Rock Book of the Year). In 2021, Daniel was a guest curator of 2 Tone Lives & Legacies exhibition as part of Coventry Cultural City 2021 and curated the anniversary edition of the Selecter's debut album Too Much Pressure.
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