Kraftwerk Music Non-Stop

by Albiez, Sean; Pattie, David

• ISBN13: 9781441191366
• ISBN10: 1441191364
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

When they were creating and releasing their most influential albums in the mid to late 1970s, Kraftwerk were far from the musical mainstream.

Author Biography

Sean Albiez is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Southampton Solent University. He has published scholarly work on Techno. Krautrock, Electronica, Punk and Madonna. David Pattie is Professor of 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	p. ix
Introduction: The (Ger) man Machines	p. 1
Music, Technology and Culture
Autobahn and Heimatklänge: Soundtracking the FRG	p. 15
Kraftwerk and the Image of the Modern	p. 44
Kraftwerk-the Decline of the Pop Star	p. 63
Authentic Replicants: Brothers between Decades between Kraftwerk(s)	p. 80
Kraftwerk: Technology and Composition	p. 97
Kraftwerk: Playing the Machines	p. 119
Influences and Legacies
Europe Non-Stop: West Germany, Britain and the Rise of Synthpop, 1975-81	p. 139
Vorsprung durch Technik - Kraftwerk and the British Fixation with Germany	p. 163
'Dragged into the Dance' - the Role of Kraftwerk in the Development of Electro-Funk	p. 181
Average White Band: Kraftwerk and the Politics of Race	p. 194
Trans-Europa Express: Tracing the Trance Machine	p. 214
Discography	p. 231
Index	p. 237
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