Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop

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Sean Albiez, David Pattie
A&C Black, 2011 M01 1 - 244 páginas
When they were creating and releasing their most influential albums in the mid to late 1970s, Kraftwerk were far from the musical mainstream - and yet it is impossible now to imagine the history of popular music without them. Today, Kraftwerk are considered to be an essential part of pop's DNA, alongside artists like the Beatles, the Velvet Underground, and Little Richard.

Kraftwerk's immediate influence might have been on a generation of synth-based bands (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the Human League, Depeche Mode, Yello, et al), but their influence on the emerging dance culture in urban America has proved longer lasting and more decisive.

This collection of original essays looks at Kraftwerk - their legacy and influence - from a variety of angles, and demonstrates persuasively and coherently that however you choose to define their art, it's impossible to underestimate the ways in which it predicted and shaped the future.
 

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I Music Technology and Culture
13
II Influences and Legacies
137
Discography
231

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Sean Albiez is the Programme Group Leader for Popular Music at Southampton Solent University. He has been an active musician since the mid-1980s, and has published scholarly work about John Lydon, Krautrock, and Madonna. David Pattie is Professor in Drama in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Chester. He is the author of Rock Music in Performance (Palgrave 2007) and The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett (Routledge 2001).

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