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      • Edited by Uwe Schütte, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2022
      October 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009036535
      9781316511077
      9781009005272
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009036535
      Dimensions:
      (250 x 175 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 344 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (245 x 169 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 346 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest, Music Performance
      Collection:
      The Cambridge Companions to Music
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Music
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest, Music Performance
    Collection:
    The Cambridge Companions to Music
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Music
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    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.

    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

    ‘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.'

    Source: 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.'

    Source: Electronic Sound

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