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1 - Krautrock

Definitions, Concepts, Contexts

from Part I - Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2022

By
Ulrich Adelt
Edited by
Uwe Schütte
Uwe Schütte
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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Summary

This chapter on definitions, concepts, and the context of Krautrock exercises different modes of theorising the music. First, the chapter analyses the origins of the term and considers different semantic connotations. Second, the chapter traces the reception of its sounds during and after its heyday (1968 to 1974) and both inside and outside of Germany. Third, the chapter attempts to define musicological characteristics of Krautrock in relation to other musical forms. In the last section, the chapter illustrates how national and transnational identity as well as spatiality can serve as concepts that connect Krautrock’s history, identity formation, and overall politics.

Keywords

Krautrockkosmischepsychedelic rockfree jazzaudiotopiaspatialitydiscursive formationde-territorializationglobalizationtransnational identity
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The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock , pp. 15 - 27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Recommended Reading

Adelt, U, Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016).Google Scholar
Kotsopoulos, N, Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy (London: Black Dog, 2010).Google Scholar
Simmeth, A, Krautrock transnational: Die Neuerfindung der Popmusik in der BRD, 1968–1978 (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016).Google Scholar
Stubbs, D, Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany (London: Faber & Faber, 2014).Google Scholar
Wagner, C, Der Klang der Revolte: Die magischen Jahre des westdeutschen Musik-Underground (Mainz: Schott, 2013).Google Scholar

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  • Krautrock
  • Edited by Uwe Schütte, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock
  • Online publication: 20 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009036535.002
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  • Krautrock
  • Edited by Uwe Schütte, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock
  • Online publication: 20 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009036535.002
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  • Krautrock
  • Edited by Uwe Schütte, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock
  • Online publication: 20 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009036535.002
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