German Pop Music : : A Companion / / ed. by Uwe Schütte.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Carpenter, Alexander,; Deisl, Heinrich,; Jäger, Christian,; Jürgensen, Christoph,; Littlejohn, John,; Mendívil, Julio,; Monroe, Alexei,; Munderloh, Marissa Kristina,; Robb, David,; Schütte, Uwe,; Shahan, Cyrus,; Weixler, Antonius,
• HerausgeberIn: Schütte, Uwe,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Companions to Contemporary German Culture , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 270 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction – Pop Music as the Soundtrack of German Post-War History
• Schlager and Musical Conservatism in the Post-War Era
• The Protest Song of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s – Franz Josef Degenhardt and Ton Steine Scherben
• Krautrock – The Development of a Movement
• Kraftwerk – Industrielle Volksmusik between Retro-Futurism and Ambivalence
• Fehlfarben and German Punk: The Making of ‘No Future’
• Ripples on a Bath of Steel – The Two Stages of Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW)
• Einstürzende Neubauten to Rammstein: Mapping the Industrial Continuum in German Pop Music
• Sender Deutschland – The Development and Reception of Techno in Germany
• Rap in Germany – Multicultural Narratives of the Berlin Republic
• Diskursrock and the ‘Hamburg School’. German Pop Music as Art and Intellectual Discourse
• Saying ‘Yes!’ While Meaning ‘No!’ – A Conversation with Diedrich Diederichsen
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index