Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk

Future Music from Germany

Summary

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The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape

'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, experimenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and machine - to change the course of modern music. This is the story of Kraftwerk as a cultural phenomenon, who turned electronic music into avant-garde concept art and created the soundtrack to our digital age.

© Uwe Schütte 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Reviews

  • A highly stimulating critical biography. Written from a European perspective, Kraftwerk is a pleasure to read.
    Jon Savage, New Statesman

About the author

Uwe Schütte

Uwe Schütte is a Reader in German at Aston University, Birmingham, where he teaches and researches contemporary Austrian and German literature, the writer W.G. Sebald and German popular music.
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