Perspectives on German popular music / edited by Michael Ahlers and Christoph Jacke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahlers, Michael, editor.

Jacke, Christoph, 1968- editor.

Series:

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Germany--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Germany.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 320 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Contents:

Histories and foundations. A fragile kaleidoscope : institutions, methodologies and outlooks on German popular music (studies) / Michael Ahlers and Christoph Jacke ; Popular music studies in Germany : from the origins to the 1990s / Helmut Rösing ; Looking east : popular music studies between theory and practice / Peter Wicke

Arts and experiments. Komische Musik: on Krautrock's takeoff / Jens Gerrit Papenburg ; Kraftwerk : the history and aesthetics of a pop-cultural concept / Dirk Matejovski ; Pophörspiel : popular music in radio art / Holger Schulze

Mainstreams and masses. Hit men : Giorgio Moroder, Frank Farian and the eurodisco sound of the 1970s/80s / Thomas Krettenauer ; A re-encounter with the Scorpions' "Winds of change" : why I couldn't stand it then, what I learn from analysing it now / Ralf von Appen ; Modern Talking, musicology and I : analysing and interpreting forbidden fruit / André Doring ; Rocking Granny's living room? The new voices of German schlager / Julio Mendívil

Niches and subcultures. The popularization of electronic dance music : German artist/producers and the eurodance phenomenon / Nico Thom ; Restless and wild : early West German heavy metal / Dietmar Elflein ; No escape from noise : "Geräuschmusik" made in Germany / Till Kniola ; German gothic : from "Neue Deutsche Todeskunst" to neo-Victorian steampunk / Birgit Richard ; "The interesting ones" : "Hamburger Schule" and the "secondariness" of German pop / Till Huber ; Music, line dance and country and western-themed events : insights into German country music culture / Stefanie Jäger and Nils Kirschlager

Politics and gender. Music of the right-wing scene : text content, distribution and effects / Georg Brunner ; Rammstein under observation / Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer and Arne Wachtmann ; Rap music in Germany / Ayla Güler Saied ; "Heulsusen-pop" : new male sensitivity in German independent music / Maren Volkmann ; From "Frauenfest" to "Bitchsm" : feminist strategies in German-language popular music from the 1970s until today / Sonja Eismann

Germanness and otherness. "White punks on dope" in Germany : Nina Hagen's punk covers / Moritz Ba€ler ; Singing in German : pop music and the question of language / Diedrich Diederichsen ; "NDW"/New German wave : from punk to mainstream / Barbara Hornberger ; Integrated music media analysis : an appplication to Trio / Christofer Jost ; Punk in Germany / Philipp Meinert and Martin Seeliger ; Popular music from Austria / Rosa Reitsamer ; From soundtrack of the reunification to the celebration of Germanness : Paul van Dyk and Peter Heppnir's "Wir sind Wir" as national trance anthem / Melanie Schiller

Electronic sounds and cities. Concepts of Cologne / Hans Nieswandt ; Who said it's got to be "clean"? Stereotypes, presets and discontent in German electronic sound studios / Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt ; The Berlin sound of techno / Daniel Meteo and Sandra Passaro

Media and industries. The history of the German popular music industry in the twentieth century / Klaus Nathaus ; Pop on TV : the national and international success of Radio Bremen's Beat-Club / Detlef Siegfried ; German music talent shows / Nicolas Ruth and Holger Schramm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472479624

1472479629

OCLC:

953792393

Publisher Number:

99971627796