Einsturzende Neubauten's Kollaps

Intended to be "unlistenable," Germany''s Einsturzende Neubauten''s 1981-debut album Kollaps has attracted listeners four decades after it was recorded. Perhaps the best musical encapsulation of the Cold War as experienced in the walled city of West Berlin, Kollaps is a product of its time while remaining as vital, exhilarating and surprising as the day it was released.The book explores the contexts, themes, and influences that shaped Kollaps. It describes the early days of Einsturzende Neubauten in West Berlin, the manic energy of their performances, their use of scrap metal, drill hammers, bodily sounds, and tape loops, their preoccupation with nihilism and subversion, and what Nick Cave called the "incredibly mournful, haunting" nature of their music. The beginning of a 40-year career, this first burst of energy remains their purest statement.>

Info autore

Melle Jan Kromhout is a musicologist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, working on the conceptual relations between music, sound, and media from the nineteenth century to the present. He is the author of The Logic of Filtering. How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music (forthcoming 2021).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Melle Jan Kromhout, Jan Nieuwenhuis
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.09.2024
• EAN: 9781501387500
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-8750-0
• Pagine: 128
• Dimensioni: 126 mm x 196 mm x 12 mm
• Serie: 33 1/3 Europe
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Monografie; Berlin, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / International, World Music, Music reviews & criticism, Punk, New Wave & Indie, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Music reviews and criticism, c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period)