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Future Days: Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music
Future Days Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music Author:David Stubbs A 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. — � — West Germany after World War II was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. But this orphaned landscape proved fertile ground for a... more » generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the strange and beautiful sounds that became known as Krautrock.
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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.
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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.
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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.« less
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