Krautrock : German music in the seventies / Ulrich Adelt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adelt, Ulrich, 1972-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Tracking pop

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Krautrock (Music)--History and criticism.

Krautrock (Music).

Rock music--Germany (West)--1971-1980--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Germany (West).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Krautrock is a catch-all term for the music of various white German rock groups of the 1970s that blended influences of African American and Anglo-American music with the experimental and electronic music of European composers. Groups such as Can, Popol Vuh, Faust, and Tangerine Dream arose out of the German student movement of 1968 and connected leftist political activism with experimental rock music and, later, electronic sounds. Since the 1970s, American and British popular genres such as indie, post-rock, techno, and hip-hop have drawn heavily on krautrock, ironically reversing a flow of influence krautrock originally set out to disrupt. Among other topics, individual chapters of the book focus on the redefinition of German identity in the music of Kraftwerk, Can, and Neul; on community and conflict in the music of Amon Düül, Faust, and Ton Steine Scherben; on "cosmic music" and New Age; and on Donna Summer's and David Bowie's connections to Germany. Rather than providing a purely musicological or historical account, KRAUTROCK discusses the music as being constructed through performance and articulated through various forms of expressive culture, including communal living, spirituality, and sound. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Musical Stunde Null: The Recordings of Can, Kraftwerk, and Neu! 17

2 Community and Conflict: The Communes of Amon Düül, Faust, and Ton Steine Scherben 45

3 New Age of Earth: The kosmische Musik of Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze, and Popol Vuh 83

4 Ecstatic Heritage: Popol Vuh's Soundtracks for Werner Herzog 110

5 Outside Looking In: Donna Summer's Sound of Munich and David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy 128

6 After Krautrock: The Neue Deutsche Welle and Beyond 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472073191

9780472053193

9780472122219

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.9206841

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