Music-Machines: A Transatlantic History of German Electronic Music

In The Music-Machines, author Sean Nye traces a fascinating and distinctly American interpretation of 20th century German electronic music .Covering a series of crucial historical moments, Nye provides both a new and alternate history of the extraordinary impact that electronic music from Germany had in the United States, including the receptions of elektronsische Musik, Krautrock, goth-industrial, Eurodance, techno, trance, and minimal. This first comprehensive history of German-American exchanges in electronic music explores the political and social dimensions of American constructions of Germanness in electronic music.Nye interprets the music in relation to technology, art, and musical style, encouraging readers to delve into what that reveals about its relationship to nation, race, gender, and sexuality.Through such interpretations, The Music-Machines presents a cultural arc of these constructions of Germanness and electronic music.Nye sets this German-American exchange within larg