Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop

Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop

Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop

Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop

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Overview

When they were creating and releasing their most influential albums in the mid to late 1970s, Kraftwerk were far from the musical mainstream - and yet it is impossible now to imagine the history of popular music without them. Today, Kraftwerk are considered to be an essential part of pop's DNA, alongside artists like the Beatles, the Velvet Underground, and Little Richard.

Kraftwerk's immediate influence might have been on a generation of synth-based bands (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the Human League, Depeche Mode, Yello, et al), but their influence on the emerging dance culture in urban America has proved longer lasting and more decisive.

This collection of original essays looks at Kraftwerk - their legacy and influence - from a variety of angles, and demonstrates persuasively and coherently that however you choose to define their art, it's impossible to underestimate the ways in which it predicted and shaped the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441191366
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/18/2010
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sean Albiez is the Programme Group Leader for Popular Music at Southampton Solent University. He has been an active musician since the mid-1980s, and has published scholarly work about John Lydon, Krautrock, and Madonna. David Pattie is Professor in Drama in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Chester. He is the author of Rock Music in Performance (Palgrave 2007) and The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett (Routledge 2001).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix

Introduction: The (Ger) man Machines David Pattie 1

I Music, Technology and Culture

1 Autobahn and Heimatklänge: Soundtracking the FRG Sean Albiez Kyrre Tromm Lindvig 15

2 Kraftwerk and the Image of the Modern David Cunningham 44

3 Kraftwerk-the Decline of the Pop Star Pertti Grönholm 63

4 Authentic Replicants: Brothers between Decades between Kraftwerk(s) Simon Piasecki Robert Wilsmore 80

5 Kraftwerk: Technology and Composition Carsten Brocker Michael Patterson 97

6 Kraftwerk: Playing the Machines David Pattie 119

II Influences and Legacies

7 Europe Non-Stop: West Germany, Britain and the Rise of Synthpop, 1975-81 Sean Albiez 139

8 Vorsprung durch Technik - Kraftwerk and the British Fixation with Germany Richard Witts 163

9 'Dragged into the Dance' - the Role of Kraftwerk in the Development of Electro-Funk Joseph Toltz 181

10 Average White Band: Kraftwerk and the Politics of Race Mark Duffett 194

11 Trans-Europa Express: Tracing the Trance Machine Hillegonda Rietveld 214

Discography 231

Index 237

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