Kraftwerk – Industrielle Volksmusik between Retro-Futurism and Ambivalence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction – Pop Music as the Soundtrack of German Post-War History 1
4. Schlager and Musical Conservatism in the Post-War Era 25
5. The Protest Song of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s – Franz Josef Degenhardt and Ton Steine Scherben 43
6. Krautrock – The Development of a Movement 63
7. Kraftwerk – Industrielle Volksmusik between Retro-Futurism and Ambivalence 85
8. Fehlfarben and German Punk: The Making of ‘No Future’ 111
9. Ripples on a Bath of Steel – The Two Stages of Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) 131
10. Einstürzende Neubauten to Rammstein: Mapping the Industrial Continuum in German Pop Music 151
11. Sender Deutschland – The Development and Reception of Techno in Germany 171
12. Rap in Germany – Multicultural Narratives of the Berlin Republic 189
13. Diskursrock and the ‘Hamburg School’. German Pop Music as Art and Intellectual Discourse 211
14. Saying ‘Yes!’ While Meaning ‘No!’ – A Conversation with Diedrich Diederichsen 235
15. Contributors 253
16. Bibliography 257
17. Index 263