TY - BOOK AU - Stubbs,David TI - Future days: Krautrock and the building of modern Germany SN - 9780571346639 (pbk.) : U1 - 781.6'6'094309046 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Faber & Faber KW - Rock music KW - Germany KW - 1961-1970 KW - History and criticism KW - 1971-1980 KW - Rock groups KW - History KW - Music KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Originally published: 2014; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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. They may not all have become household names, but the influence of their ruminative, expansive compositions upon Western popular music is incalculable. '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 ER -