FUTURE DAYS: KRAUTROCK AND THE BUILDING OF MODERN GERMANY

Book ID/图书代码： 04560014B70172

English Summary/英文概要： West Germany following the Second World War was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. But this disorientating landscape proved fertile ground for a generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the experimental and various sounds that became known as Krautrock.

Eschewing the Anglo-American jazz/blues tradition, they took their inspiration from elsewhere: the mysticism of the East; the fractured classicism of Stockhausen; the pneumatic repetition of industry and the dense forests of the Rhineland; the endless winding of Autobahns.

Faust, Neu!, Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Düül II, Can and Kraftwerk. These may not all be household names, but the influence of their ruminative, expansive compositions upon Western popular music is incalculable. These groups were key to the development of postpunk, electronica and ambient music. Without them Bowie would not have made his Berlin trilogy, Talking Heads would have been a straight-ahead rock band, and the Pet Shop Boys would have a completely different stage act.

Future Days is an in-depth study of this meditative, sometimes abstract, often very beautiful music and the groups that made it, throwing light on the social and political context that informed them. It’s an indispensable book for those wanting to understand how much of today’s music came about, and to discover a wealth of highly influential and pioneering musicians.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 西德是受到二战冲击所成立的国家：从其不长的历史中分裂出来，飘荡在欧洲的其他地方。但这块失去方向感的土地却被证明是养育了一代音乐家们的沃土，从20世纪60年代起，他们就发展了各种各样的声音，被称为“德国摇滚”。

避开英美爵士/蓝调传统，他们的灵感来自其他地区：东方的神秘主义；豪森的断裂古典主义；工厂的重复气动和莱茵兰的茂密森林以及无尽蜿蜒的高速公路。

浮士德乐队，Neu！乐队，克拉斯特乐队，灰烬太阳神殿乐队，Amon Düül II乐队，罐头乐队和发电站乐队。这些可能不是家喻户晓的名字，但他们深思熟虑以及广阔的作品对西方流行音乐的影响是无法估量的。这些群体是后朋克，电子音乐和环境音乐发展的关键。如果没有他们，鲍伊也完成不了他的柏林三部曲，传声头像乐队可能只是一支标准的摇滚乐队，以及宠物店男孩乐队将有一个完全不同?P> 《未来的日子》是对这种冥想的，有时抽象的而往往是非常美妙的音乐的深入探究，这些乐队通过社会和政治背景下的灯光做到了。对于那些想了解今天大多数的音乐是如何产生的，以及发现大量的极具影响力和开拓性的音乐家的人来说，这本书不可不读。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：A weighty and wide-ranging genre history full of mystic moments and insightful analysis (Mojo 4*)

Krautrock’s broad church is detailed and enthused about with skill by Stubbs, a man immersed in the music he adores. It’s informative and full of fantastic interviews - a must for any fans of the man machine (Q 4*)

This clear-headed and sympathetic account of great things that happened in a temporary nation is as serious and entertaining as its subject (The Independent)

‘His book is so well researched and filled with such enthusiasm for its subject that it absorbs from start to finish.’ - The Observer

‘Their revolution - sweeping, with international consequences on the shape of modern popular music - was cultural, a momentous if fleeting creative blossoming, whose many and disparate achievements are fittingly celebrated in this admirable book.’ - Uncut 8/10

‘Absorbing and illuminating.’ - The Wire

‘A thorough critical and cultural history of the genre.’ - The List 4*

‘Musically literate, historically astute and socially smart appreciation.’ - The Times

‘The brief, wide-ranging and influential musical movement is charted in forensic detail in David Stubb’s engrossing Future Days.’ - The Telegraph

About the Author/作者介绍： 大卫•斯塔布斯是一位英国作家和音乐记者。除了西蒙•雷诺兹，在加入“旋律制造商”之前，他也是“牛津杂志监视器”的联合创始人之一。随后他为“新音乐快递”，“Uncut”，“声控”和“火线”工作。他的作品刊登在“时报”，“星期日泰晤士报”，“旋转”，“监护人”，“寂灭”和“GQ”上。他撰写了大量的书籍，包括一本歌曲简介《吉米•亨德里克斯和音乐的恐惧》：为什么人们获得了罗斯科但没有得到豪森，这是对20世纪的前卫音乐和艺术的比较研究。他目前住在伦敦。

David Stubbs is a British author and music journalist. Alongside Simon Reynolds, he was one of the co-founders of the Oxford magazine Monitor before going on to join the staff at Melody Maker. He later worked for NME, Uncut and Vox, as well as The Wire. His work has appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, Spin, The Guardian, The Quietus and GQ. He has written a number of books, including a song by song profile of Jimi Hendrix and Fear Of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen, a comparative study of 20th century avant garde music and art. He currently lives in London.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：
US (Melville House)
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