Ulrich Adelt is Associate Professor for American Studies and African American and Diaspora Studies, University of Wyoming.
“Far too long, krautrock has been neglected as an area of study in
Anglophone academia. Adelt’s study puts a welcome end to this
unsatisfactory situation. His book provides an excellent overview
and expertly places this remarkable period of German music in its
historical as well as transnational context. Without doubt, it will
serve as the standard reference on the topic.”- Uwe Schütte, Aston
University, Birmingham;
“Contrary to prior assessments of krautrock’s almost 50 year
trajectory, Adelt does not romanticize its iconic Germanness. On
the contrary, he investigates the transnational, hybrid, and
crossover quality of krautrock as a discursive formation. . . .
Adelt’s study traces the performative dispersal of this inversion
in various forms of expressive culture, among them, communal
living, spirituality, visual elements but, most importantly, sound.
The result is a lively and engaged encounter with a few decades of
German rock music which—instead of wanting to anchor musical
production in narrow confines of nation, or in rigidified identity
categories such as race, class or gender—brings forth the mobile,
transformational quality of sound aesthetics, making and mirroring
contemporary globalized cultural flows.”- Sabine Broeck, University
of Bremen
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