Krautrock is a catch-all term
for the music of various white German rock groups of the 1970s that
blended influences of African American and Anglo-American music with the
experimental and electronic music of European composers. Groups such as
Can, Popol Vuh, Faust, and Tangerine Dream arose out of the German
student movement of 1968 and connected leftist political activism with
experimental rock music and, later, electronic sounds. Since the 1970s,
American and British popular genres such as indie, post-rock, techno,
and hip-hop have drawn heavily on krautrock, ironically reversing a flow
of influence krautrock originally set out to disrupt.
Among
other topics, individual chapters of the book focus on the redefinition
of German identity in the music of Kraftwerk, Can, and Neu!; on
community and conflict in the music of Amon Düül, Faust, and Ton Steine
Scherben; on “cosmic music” and New Age; and on Donna Summer’s and David
Bowie’s connections to Germany. Rather than providing a purely
musicological or historical account, Krautrock
discusses the music as being constructed through performance and
articulated through various forms of expressive culture, including
communal living, spirituality, and sound.
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