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Kraftwerk : future music from Germany

Title
Kraftwerk : future music from Germany / Uwe Schütte.
Author
Schütte, Uwe, 1967-
Publication
  • [London] : Penguin Books, 2020.
  • ©2020

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xv, 316 pages : illustrations; 19 cm
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.
Alternative Title
Future music from Germany
Subject
  • Kraftwerk (Musical group)
  • Rock musicians > Germany > Biography
  • Synthpop (Music) > Germany > History and criticism
  • Rock musicians
  • Synthpop (Music)
  • Germany
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-316).
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.
Call Number
JMC 22-2
ISBN
  • 9780141986753
  • 0141986751
LCCN
2020416325
OCLC
1141813150
Author
Schütte, Uwe, 1967- author.
Title
Kraftwerk : future music from Germany / Uwe Schütte.
Publisher
[London] : Penguin Books, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-316).
Other Form:
ebook version : 9780241320556
Research Call Number
JMC 22-2
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