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[ecrea] New Book: Soundtracking Germany - Popular Music and National Identity

Tue Sep 11 01:59:32 GMT 2018





New book*/Soundtracking Germany - Popular Music and National Identity/*, publishedby Rowman and Littlefield Int. in the new series Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions.

*Themes of the book i.a.: *
Rammstein, Schlager, German Beatmusik, Krautrock, Kraftwerk, Punk, New German Wave, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Techno..

*Free preview:* https://ws1.nbni.co.uk/widgets/page/5b2cdafbf5ba7407e8543a84/0

*Table of Contents:*
Introduction: Made in Germany / 1. The Natives of Trizonesia [Germanness Without a Nation] / 2. The Sound of Uncanny Silence [Beat, The Silent Nation and International Imaginaries] / 3. Fun Fun Fun on the Autobahn [Kraftwerk and the Open-Ended Narrative of the Nation] /4. Hitler on the Dance Floor [Queering the Nation] / 5. Most German of the Arts? [Techno and the Celebration of the Nation] / Conclusion: Another Time of Writing

*Blurb:*
This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular. By discussing diverse musical genres and commercially and critically successful songs at the heights of their cultural relevance throughout seventy years of post-war German history, Soundtracking Germanydescribes how popular music can function as a language for “writing” national narratives. Running chronologically, all chapters historically contextualize and critically discuss the cultural relevance of the respective genre before moving into a close reading of one particularly relevant and appellative case study that reveals specific interrelations between popular music and constructions of Germanness. Close readings of these sonic national narratives in different moments of national transformations reveal changes in the narrative rhetoric as this book explores how Germanness is performatively constructed, challenged, and reaffirmed throughout the course of seventy years. *
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*The book is available for purchase here <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786606228/Soundtracking-Germany-Popular-Music-and-National-Identity>
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