Overview
This Companion is the first academic introduction to the 1960s/70s 'Krautrock' movement of German experimental music that has long attracted the attention of the music press and fans in Britain and abroad. It offers a structured approach to this exceptionally heterogeneous and decentralized movement, combining overviews with detailed analysis and close readings. The volume first analyzes the cultural, historical and economic contexts of Krautrock's emergence. It then features expert chapters discussing all the key bands of the era including Can, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Neu!, Faust, Ash Ra Tempel, Cluster and Amon Düül II. The volume concludes with essays that trace the varied, wide-ranging legacy of Krautrock from a variety of perspectives, exploring in particular the impact of German experimental music in the Anglosphere, including British post-punk and Detroit Techno. A final chapter examining the current bands that continue the Krautrock sound closes this comprehensive overview of the Krautrock phenomenon.
Full Product Details
Author: Uwe Schütte (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.90cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 24.50cm
Weight: 0.600kg
ISBN: 9781009005272
ISBN 10: 1009005278
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 27 October 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock is a valuable resource for both scholars and fans of German music of the 1970s, offering rigorous and historically grounded analysis of the kind that this supremely rich and intoxicating era of experimental rock and electronic music deserves.' Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84
'The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock is a valuable resource for both scholars and fans of German music of the 1970s, offering rigorous and historically grounded analysis of the kind that this supremely rich and intoxicating era of experimental rock and electronic music deserves.' Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–84 'This Companion delivers a great introduction to Krautrock. The book is very well-researched and catches the spirit of the music Faust and our colleagues made (and continue to make).' Jean-Hervé Péron, FaUSt / art-Errorist / Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst 'An absorbing and entirely readable study.' Shindig! 'If you're going to stand a chance of passing your Electronic Sound exams this year, you'll need a copy of The Cambridge Companion To Krautrock … edited by Kraftwerk egghead Uwe Schütte, so you know you're in safe hands.' Electronic Sound
Author Information
Uwe Schütte worked as a Reader in German in British higher education until Brexit. Now based in Berlin, he is Privatdozent at the University of Göttingen. Schütte has edited some ten volumes and written more than fifteen monographs on contemporary German-language literature and German pop music, with a focus on W. G. Sebald and Kraftwerk.
