Call for Papers

Special Issue on Krautrock

Papers are invited for a special issue of Popular Music and Society on Krautrock.

The extraordinary and ongoing influence of Krautrock (the progressive German music of the late 1960s and 1970s) on areas of popular music from punk to hip hop to electronica is widely acknowledged. However, after almost forty years there still exists a distinct dearth of scholarship on this music and its makers. Papers focusing on Krautrock’s reflection of its temporal and political location and papers on Krautrock’s reception are particularly encouraged.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Defining/Redefining Krautrock
• Krautrock as (in)coherent movement
• Discerning different strands of Krautrock
• Krautrock as distinct from progressive music in other countries
• Popular reception of Krautrock in Germany and abroad
• “Krautrock” as an externally based concept
• Krautrockers’ perceptions of Krautrock
• German and international influences on/by Krautrock
• The Hippie movement and Krautrock
• The legacy of Krautrock
• The Krautrockers and their music today
• Krautrock and the New German Wave in film
• Germanness in Krautrock
• Reconstruction of German identity circa 25 years after World War II
• Language and sound
• Krautrock and technology
• Krautrock East: Experimental music in 1960s/1970s DDR

Tentative Production Timeline:

• Oct. 1, 2008 – Deadline for Submission of Articles
• October 2009 – Publication of Issue

Inquiries and submissions should be directed to the journal itself or to guest editors John Littlejohn and Michael Putnam at: kr_jl_mp@yahoo.com.