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Future Days: Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music

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Future Days: Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music

A sweeping history of the men and women who transformed postwar Germanyâ€”and created a musical genre that revolutionized rock and roll and gave birth to hip-hop.
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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 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 DÃ¼Ã¼l II, Can, Kraftwerkâ€”the influence of these groupsâ€™ 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.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	David Stubbs
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781612194752
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Melville House
Manufacturer	Melville House
NumberOfPages	512
PublicationDate	2015-07-21
Publisher	Melville House
ReleaseDate	2015-07-21
Studio	Melville House

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