Kraftwerk : future music from Germany / Uwe Schütte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schütte, Uwe, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Synthpop (Music).

Germany.

Kraftwerk (Musical group).

Rock musicians--Germany--Biography.

Rock musicians.

Synthpop (Music)--Germany--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Other Title:

Future music from Germany

Place of Publication:

[London] : Penguin Books, 2020.

Summary:

So many of Kraftwerk's innovations have become absorbed into the mainstream that it is sometimes hard to remember just how innovative, strange and avant-garde they were. Ignoring almost all rock traditions, working in near total secrecy in their Dusseldorf studio, releasing new material sometimes at very long intervals, Kraftwerk also revolutionized stage presentation and, through their obsession with design and presentation, linked their work to the traditions of the Bauhaus and 1920s German aesthetics. Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany brilliantly describes how a genuinely new, strange and powerful sound stemmed from years of restless experimentation and from the unique atmosphere both of the West German state and of a wider Rhineland industrial avant-garde.

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction: The birth of electronic pop music in Düsseldorf

Early works: the Kraftwerk story unfolds

Movement and velocity: from Autobahn to Trans-Europe Express

'We are the robots': from The Man-Machine to Computer World

Enter the digital revolution: from Techno Pop to Tour de France

Sound and vision 3D: working on The Catalogue

'Music non stop': Kraftwerk's legacy

Postscript: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780141986753

0141986751

OCLC:

1111214791