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German Pop Music

A Companion
  • Edited by: Uwe Schütte
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2017
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Companions to Contemporary German Culture

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The development of German pop music represents a fascinating cultural mirror to the history of post-war Germany, reflecting sociological changes and political developments. While film studies is an already established discipline, German pop music is currently emerging as a new and exciting field of academic study.
This pioneering companion is the first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject, charting the development of German pop music from the post-war period 'Schlager' to the present 'Diskursrock'. Written by acknowledged experts from Germany, the UK and the US, the various chapters provide overviews of pertinent genres as well as focusing on major bands such as CAN, Kraftwerk or Rammstein. While these acts have shaped the international profile of German pop music, the volume also undertakes in-depth examinations of the specific German contributions to genres such as punk, industrial, rap and techno.
The survey is concluded by an interview with the leading German pop theorist Diedrich Diederichsen. The volume constitutes an indispensible companion for any student, teacher and scholar in the area of German studies interested in contemporary popular culture.

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Uwe Schütte, Berlin.

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"Indeed, German Pop Music: A Companion is aimed at (primarily anglophone) students and scholars in German Studies, providing a non-music-specialist introduction to the field of Popular Music Studies while also mapping the territory where popular music and German history intersect. [...] While each chapter can be read fruitfully as a stand-alone essay, there is also a narrative thread discernible throughout the book, with each chapter picking up where the previous one left off. [...] German Pop Music provides an informative, accessible, and much-needed anglophone introduction to the field of German Popular Music Studies."
Luis-Manuel Garcia in: Modern Language Review, Vol. 113 (2018), Part 2, 449-451

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    Frontmatter

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    Introduction – Pop Music as the Soundtrack of German Post-War History

    1
    Uwe Schütte
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    Schlager and Musical Conservatism in the Post-War Era

    25
    Julio Mendívil
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    The Protest Song of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s – Franz Josef Degenhardt and Ton Steine Scherben

    43
    David Robb
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    Krautrock – The Development of a Movement

    63
    John Littlejohn
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    Kraftwerk – Industrielle Volksmusik between Retro-Futurism and Ambivalence

    85
    Uwe Schütte
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    Fehlfarben and German Punk: The Making of ‘No Future’

    111
    Cyrus Shahan
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    Ripples on a Bath of Steel – The Two Stages of Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW)

    131
    Christian Jäger
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    Einstürzende Neubauten to Rammstein: Mapping the Industrial Continuum in German Pop Music

    151
    Alexander Carpenter
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    Sender Deutschland – The Development and Reception of Techno in Germany

    171
    Alexei Monroe
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    Rap in Germany – Multicultural Narratives of the Berlin Republic

    189
    Marissa Kristina Munderloh
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    Diskursrock and the ‘Hamburg School’. German Pop Music as Art and Intellectual Discourse

    211
    Christoph Jürgensen and Antonius Weixler
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    Saying ‘Yes!’ While Meaning ‘No!’ – A Conversation with Diedrich Diederichsen

    235
    Heinrich Deisl
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    Contributors

    253
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    Bibliography

    257
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    Index

    263
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eBook published on:
January 11, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9783110425727
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January 11, 2017
Paperback ISBN:
9783110425710
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270
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110425727
eBook ISBN: 9783110425727
Paperback ISBN: 9783110425710
Keywords for this book
German culture; German music; pop music; Kraftwerk
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Scholars, teachers and students of German studies, sociology, musicology, post-war history and cultural studies
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