Care punks and medicine metallers: Why are fans of “dangerous” music often so social?

According to a GDR encyclopedia, rock ‘n’ roll was once used in the West as a means of “psychological warfare” and “distracting young people from political issues of the day”. Patti Smith, godmother of punk, preferred to be “outside the society”, and even today’s bands labeled as “punk rock” usually don’t have much more for the state and average citizen than a well-groomed, I quote the legendary Ba…