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Future Days Krautrock And The Building Of Modern GermanyStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionA sweeping history of the men and women who transformed postwar Germany--and created a musical genre that revolutionized rock and roll and gave birth to hip-hop.
Eschewing the easy pleasures of rock and roll and the more substantive seductions of blues and jazz, they took their inspiration from elsewhere: the mysticism of the East; the fractured classicism of Stockhausen; the grinding repetition of industry; the dense forests of the Rhineland; the endless winding of Autobahns.
Faust, Neu , Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon D l II, Can, Kraftwerk--the influence of these groups' music on Western popular music is incalculable. They were key to the development of movements ranging from post-punk to electronica and hip-hop and have directly inspired artists as diverse as David Bowie, Talking Heads, and LCD Soundsystem.
Future Days is the brilliantly reported, deeply researched story of the groups that created Krautrock, and a social and cultural history of the Germany that challenged, inspired, and repelled them. |