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Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende Neubauten: German Experimental Music: 'Evading do-re-mi'
Contributor(s): Shryane, Jennifer (Author)
ISBN: 1409421562     ISBN-13: 9781409421566
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $190.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Music | Genres & Styles - Electronic
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: 782.421
LCCN: 2011010465
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.23 lbs) 270 pages
 
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At the end of his life, Pierre Schaeffer commented that his musical and sound experiments had attempted to go beyond 'do-re-mi'. This had a direct bearing on Einst 1/4rzende Neubauten's musical philosophy and work, with the musicians always striving to extend the boundaries of music in sound, instrumentation and purpose. The group are one of the few examples of 'rock-based' artists who have been able to sustain a breadth and depth of work in a variety of media over a number of years while remaining experimental and open to development. Jennifer Shryane provides a much-needed analysis of the group's important place in popular/experimental music history. She illustrates their innovations with found- and self-constructed instrumentation, their Artaudian performance strategies and textual concerns, as well as their methods of independence. Einst 1/4rzende Neubauten have also made a consistent and unique contribution to the development of the independent German Language Contemporary Music scene, which although often acknowledged as influential, is still rarely examined.