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Made in Germany: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary German popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of German music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Germany.
List of contents
Introduction: Deutschland - Echt jetzt? German Popular Music's Complicated Relationship with German Identity
Oliver Seibt, Martin Ringsmut, and David-Emil Wickström / Interview: Rocking the Academy? Two Cold-War Careers and the Emergence of Popular Music Studies and Higher Popular Music Education in Germany. An Interview with Peter Wicke and Udo Dahmen
David-Emil Wickström / Part I: Historical Spotlights / 1: Transnational Networks and Intermedial Interfaces in German Popular Music, 1900-1939
Caroline Stahrenberg / 2: Nazis and Quiet Sounds: Popular Music, Simulated Normality, and Cultural Niches in the Terror Regime, 1933-45
Jens Gerrit Papenburg / 3: Conflicting Identities: The Meaning and Significance of Popular Music in the GDR
Michael Rauhut / 4: 'Party on the Death Strip' - Reflections on an Historical Turning Point
Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer / Part II: Globally German / 5: The Krauts Are Coming: Electronic Music and Rock in the 1970s
Ulrich Adelt / 6: German Metal Attack: Power Metal in and from Germany
Jan-Peter Herbst / 7: German Longings: A Dialogue on the Promises and Dangers of National Stereotypes
Melanie Schiller and Jeroen de Kloet / Part III: Also "Made in Germany" / 8: Peepl rock: Post-Soviet Popular Music in Germany
David-Emil Wickström / 9: Made in Almanya: The Birth of Turkish Rap
Thomas Solomo / 10: G.I. Blues and German Schlager: The Politics of Popular Music in Germany during the Cold War
Bodo Mrozek / Part IV: Explicitly German / 11: Neue Deutsche Welle: Tactical Affirmation as a Strategy of Subversion
Barbara Hornberger / 12: "One Day You Will Wish We'd Only Played Music": Some Remarks on Recent Developments of Germany's RechtsRock Scene
Thorsten Hindrichs / 13: Hallo Blumenau, bom dia Brasil! German Music Beyond Germany
Julio Mendiìvil / Part V: Reluctantly German / 14: "Meine Lieder sind anders": Hildegard Knef and the Idea(l) of German Chanson
Reneì Michaelsen / 15: How Munich and Frankfurt Brought (Electronic) Dance Music to the Top of the International Charts with Eurodisco and Eurodance - and Why Germany Was Not Involved
Heiko Wandler / 16: Japonisme 2.0: German visual-kei Fans, Tokio Hotel, and the Popular Music Genre That Must Not Exist
Oliver Seibt / Coda / 17: The Germaican Connection - German Reggae Abroad
Martin Ringsmut / Interview: Standing Up Against Discrimination and Exclusion: An Interview with Kutlu Yurtseven (Microphone Mafia)
Monika E. Schoop / Selected Bibliography
About the author
Oliver Seibt is Assistant Professor of Cultural Musicology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Martin Ringsmut is Research Assistant in the Ethnomusicology Department at the University of Cologne, Germany, where he has taught courses in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies.
David-Emil Wickström is Professor of Popular Music History at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, in Mannheim, Germany.
Summary
Made in Germany: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary German popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of German music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Germany.
