Description: Jennifer Shryane provides a much-needed analysis of EinstÃ1/4rzende 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.
Review Quotes: '... this book is an important contribution to the research of German popular music.' Popular Music