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

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:* 
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*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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