W&M ScholarWorks Undergraduate Honors Theses Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 4-2017 Alternative Notions of Dissent: Punk Rock’s Significance in the Soviet Union and East Germany Gabrielle E. Hibbert College of William and Mary Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses Part of the Music Performance Commons, Other German Language and Literature Commons, and the Slavic Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Hibbert, Gabrielle E., "Alternative Notions of Dissent: Punk Rock’s Significance in the Soviet Union and East Germany" (2017). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 1064. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/1064 This Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Alternative Notions of Dissent: Punk Rock’s Significance in the Soviet Union and East Germany A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in German from The College of William and Mary by Gabrielle Elyse Hibbert Accepted for ___________________________________ (Honors, High Honors, Highest Honors) ________________________________________ Bruce Campbell, Director ________________________________________ Paula Pickering ________________________________________ Sasha Prokhorov ________________________________________ Jennifer Taylor Williamsburg, VA April 24, 2017 © Copyright by Gabrielle Elyse Hibbert 2017 ABSTRACT The punk movement arrived in the late 1970s in the United States and United Kingdom, creating non-traditional and experimental ways in which to produce music. As the movement grew it developed a foundational ideology geared towards a more inclusive civil society.