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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: DAF?
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Date: Tue, 10-Jan-84 13:03:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 10 13:03:39 1984
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Yep, you got the name (almost) right:  the band is "Deutsch-Amerikanishe
Freundschaft".  That means "German-American Friendship" and is meant to be
ironic, of course.  I don't know very much about the group.  Apparently
they toy a bit with neo-Nazi aesthetics, going about as far with them as
they can without getting banned, and mixing them with current reactionary
political rhetoric.  The intent is to be bitingly satirical, but to do it
subtly enough that the objects of the satire don't know that it's all a
put-on.  It seems to have been successful, since the band has aroused the
ire of various conservative politicians, who took the group for real Nazis
without comprehending that the band's point was that the Nazis of today
are more likely to wear three-piece suits than brown shirts...

I only heard anything of theirs on the radio once in ten months in Germany
last year, but I liked it.  I wish I'd bought their album.  It would have
made a great souvenir, since I spent my year abroad on a scholarship from
the Federation of German-American Clubs.
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Prentiss Riddle
("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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