Techno in Germany: Its Musical Origins and Cultural Relevance.

Autor/in	Robb, David
Titel	Techno in Germany: Its Musical Origins and Cultural Relevance.
Quelle	In: German as a foreign language, (2002) 2, S. 130-149 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-9570
Schlagwörter	Deutsch als Fremdsprache; Jugendsprache; Landeskunde; Musik; Rapmusik; Deutsche Integration; Deutschland
Abstract	The article documents the musical evolution of German techno from Kraftwerk to West Bam and Sven Väth and examines the reasons behind techno's phenomenal success in Germany and its high profile in the media. It charts the convergence of international DJs on the newly reunified Berlin in 1990 culminating in the famous Berlin sound. It looks at how this underground subculture (claimed as the first area in social life where German unification took place) was subsumed by the fashion and musical mainstream. With reference to cultural theory, the article examines, both aesthetically and socially, the significance of club culture and mass youth events such as the Love Parade. It examines the dialectic relationship between the manipulations of the culture industry and the 'creative appropriation of culture' by the ravers and DJs themselves. It probes behind the claims of the German techno mainstream to be a model of functioning democracy and tolerance and looks at the aesthetic philosophies of techno rebels such as Attari Teenage Riot, the Fuck/Hate Parade and the music of the Mille Plateaux label as guided by the theory of Deleuze and Guattari. (Verlag, adapt.).
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Update	2023/1