Jennifer Shryane provides a much-needed analysis of Einstÿrzende Neubauten'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. The group 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.
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Part I Context for Destruction; prologue1 Prologue: Being There/Not Being There; Chapter 1 Architecture, Angels and Utopia; Chapter 2 Kattrin's Drum: Germany & Music - Identity, Politics & Memory; Chapter 3 Free to Make Noise; Chapter 4 Demonic Berlin; Part II Performing Destruction; prologue2 Prologue: 'They were always quoting Artaud'; Chapter 5 Strategies against the Body; Chapter 6 Strategies against the Corner; Chapter 7 Strategies against the Voice; Chapter 8 Strategies against the Scream; Chapter 9 Strategies against the Text; Part III Performing Reconstruction; prologue3 Prologue: 'We know we have witnesses'; Chapter 10 'A Small Utopia'; conclusion Conclusion 'To infect others' Einstü rzende Neubauten Warten auf die Barbaren Jo Mitchell's Reconstruction of Concerto for Voice and Machinery 'She is Happy like Roadworks';
