Showing posts with label Siouxsie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Siouxsie. Show all posts

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Siouxsie Sioux: Fetish Wear, Swastika


One of the best examples of the kind of transgressive punk style, as described and analyzed in Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style--Siouxsie Sioux, of Siouxsie and the Banshees. As Hebdige observes, punks' use of the swastika was meant to shock the bourgeoisie, not out of any political affinity for Nazism.