Music-Machines
A Transatlantic History of German Electronic Music
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 March 2026
- ISBN 9780190065676
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 52 693
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Short description:
In The Music-Machines, author Sean Nye traces the distinct American reception and interpretation of German electronic music from the 1950s to the 2000s. Covering a series of crucial historical moments, The Music-Machines provides both a new and alternate history of the extraordinary impact that electronic music from Germany had in the United States.
Exploring this cultural dynamic, Nye demonstrates the ultimate intertwining of America's popular music with the Cold War history of West Germany and the post-1989 history of the Berlin Republic. In this way, The Music Machines sets the frame not only for the study of German electronic music, but the ways in which this electronic turn emerged in American perceptions of German identity.
Long description:
In The Music-Machines, author Sean Nye traces a fascinating and distinctly American interpretation of 20th century German electronic music . Covering a series of crucial historical moments, Nye provides both a new and alternate history of the extraordinary impact that electronic music from Germany had in the United States, including the receptions of elektronsische Musik, Krautrock, goth-industrial, Eurodance, techno, trance, and minimal.
This first comprehensive history of German-American exchanges in electronic music explores the political and social dimensions of American constructions of Germanness in electronic music. Nye interprets the music in relation to technology, art, and musical style, encouraging readers to delve into what that reveals about its relationship to nation, race, gender, and sexuality. Through such interpretations, The Music-Machines presents a cultural arc of these constructions of Germanness and electronic music.
Nye sets this German-American exchange within larger questions of music and transnationalism, tracing key intersections between German and US cultures while also reflecting on other musical and cultural influences on German electronic music, The Music-Machines also places the evolution of electronic music in its broader historical context, demonstrating the ultimate intertwining of America's popular music with the Cold War history of West Germany and the post-1989 history of the Berlin Republic. In this way, The Music-Machines sets the frame not only for the study of German electronic music, but the ways in which this electronic turn emerged in American perceptions of German identity.
Music-Machines works first as a richly researched and wide-ranging material history tracking the transmissions and transmigrations of German electronic innovations across American popular culture over the last half-century.... Teeming with sharp perceptions, fresh discoveries, surprising connections, and amusing details, The Music-Machines is as entertaining as it is intellectually probing.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I - First Contacts: Science Fiction and Cybernetics
Interlude: S.F. to L.A.
1. Teutonic Time-Slip
Philip K. Dick, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and the 1960s Fallout
2. Kraftwerk's Balm
A Story of Lester Bangs, Cybernetic Feedback, and 1970s Krautrock
PART II - Remixes: Between Hip-Hop and Techno
Interlude: Berghain in Detroit
3. Kraftwerk on the Coast
Electro Rap and Techno Hop in Los Angeles and Compton
4. The 1980s Soundtracks
Hollywood and Technopop from Moroder to Faltermeyer
5. Future Dance Music
Detroit Techno, Post-1989 Berlin, and Postindustrial Germany
PART III - Raves: From Dance to Trance
Interlude: Frequency Frankfurt
6. Musical Mainhattan
Techno, Trance, and Eurodance in Frankfurt
7. Cosmic Threads
Tracing the History of Trance and Ambient
8. Californian Reverb
German Trance and American Raves in the 1990s
PART IV - Reflections: Post-1989 Engineering
Interlude: Social Media Exchange Students
9. Sprockets + Autobahn
Techno Parodies, Cyborg Humor, and Retro Dreams in Amerika
10. Minimal Conclusions
Expat Berlin, Digital Culture, and Transatlantic Futures
Index
