Future Days: Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music

by David Stubbs

Book Overview

A sweeping history of the men and women who transformed postwar Germany--and created a musical genre that revolutionized rock and roll and gave birth to hip-hop. West Germany after World War II was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. But this orphaned landscape proved fertile ground for a generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the strange and beautiful sounds that became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612194745
• ISBN13: 9781612194745
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.6" x 8.9"