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2 - Krautrock and the Radical Politics of 1968

from Part I - Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2022

By
Detlef Siegfried
Edited by
Uwe Schütte
Uwe Schütte
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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Summary

This chapter argues that the emergence of Krautrock can only be understood against the background of the specific mixture of national and international impulses that shaped the West German musical scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s. What is striking is a high degree of politicisation that resulted, among other things, from the Nazi past and the position of the divided country at the interface of the Cold War. It fuelled a particularly radical student movement and at the same time legitimised a fundamental critique of the culture industry. Combined with the musical impulses from United States and Britain, this gave rise to very unique musical forms that seemed to counter the international mainstream with something entirely new.

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politicscultural criticismfestivalsRolf-Ulrich Kaiserstatenational stereotypesriotshedonism
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The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock , pp. 28 - 43
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Adelt, U, Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016).Google Scholar
Siegfried, D, Time Is on My Side: Konsum und Politik in der westdeutschen Jugendkultur der 60er Jahre (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006).Google Scholar
Simmeth, A, Krautrock transnational: Die Neuerfindung der Popmusik in der BRD 1968–1978 (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016).Google Scholar
Wagner, C, Der Klang der Revolte: Die magischen Jahre des westdeutschen Musik-Underground (Mainz: Schott, 2013).Google Scholar

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