Book contents
- Frontmatter
- POLITICS: Détente and Multipolarity: The Cold War and German-American Relations, 1968-1990
- SECURITY: German-American Security Relations, 1968-1990
- ECONOMICS: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict: Economic Relations Between the United States and Germany, 1968-1990
- CULTURE: Culture as an Arena of Transatlantic Conflict
- 1 American Cultural Policy Toward Germany
- 2 The Third Pillar of Foreign Policy: West German Cultural Policy in the United States
- 3 The Study of Germany in the United States
- 4 American Studies in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1990
- 5 In the Shadow of the Federal Republic: Cultural Relations Between the GDR and the United States
- 6 American Literature in Germany
- 7 The American Reception of Contemporary German Literature
- 8 The Americanization of the German Language
- 9 Between Blight and Blessing: The Influence of American Popular Culture on the Federal Republic
- 10 Popular Music in Germany: Experimentation and Emancipation from Anglo-American Models
- 11 Hollywood in Germany
- 12 New German Cinema as National Cinema
- 13 Transatlantic Reflections: German and American Television
- 14 Performance Theater in the Age of Post-Drama
- 15 Beyond Painting and Sculpture: German-American Exchange in the Visual Arts
- 16 The Rediscovery of the City and Postmodern Architecture
- 17 Modernity and Postmodernity in a Transatlantic Perspective
- 18 Confrontations with the Holocaust in the Era of the Cold War: German and American Perspectives
- SOCIETY: German-American Societal Relations in Three Dimensions, 1968-1990
- 1 “1968”: A Transatlantic Event and Its Consequences
- OUTLOOK: America, Germany, and the Atlantic Community After the Cold War
- Index
10 - Popular Music in Germany: Experimentation and Emancipation from Anglo-American Models
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- POLITICS: Détente and Multipolarity: The Cold War and German-American Relations, 1968-1990
- SECURITY: German-American Security Relations, 1968-1990
- ECONOMICS: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict: Economic Relations Between the United States and Germany, 1968-1990
- CULTURE: Culture as an Arena of Transatlantic Conflict
- 1 American Cultural Policy Toward Germany
- 2 The Third Pillar of Foreign Policy: West German Cultural Policy in the United States
- 3 The Study of Germany in the United States
- 4 American Studies in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1990
- 5 In the Shadow of the Federal Republic: Cultural Relations Between the GDR and the United States
- 6 American Literature in Germany
- 7 The American Reception of Contemporary German Literature
- 8 The Americanization of the German Language
- 9 Between Blight and Blessing: The Influence of American Popular Culture on the Federal Republic
- 10 Popular Music in Germany: Experimentation and Emancipation from Anglo-American Models
- 11 Hollywood in Germany
- 12 New German Cinema as National Cinema
- 13 Transatlantic Reflections: German and American Television
- 14 Performance Theater in the Age of Post-Drama
- 15 Beyond Painting and Sculpture: German-American Exchange in the Visual Arts
- 16 The Rediscovery of the City and Postmodern Architecture
- 17 Modernity and Postmodernity in a Transatlantic Perspective
- 18 Confrontations with the Holocaust in the Era of the Cold War: German and American Perspectives
- SOCIETY: German-American Societal Relations in Three Dimensions, 1968-1990
- 1 “1968”: A Transatlantic Event and Its Consequences
- OUTLOOK: America, Germany, and the Atlantic Community After the Cold War
- Index
Summary
THE GERMAN CONTRIBUTION TO A GLOBAL POPULAR-MUSIC LANGUAGE
In the period 1968 to 1990, German popular music came of age, progressing beyond the phase of imitation of the 1960s and becoming less Anglicized. The German-language market developed into the second largest in the world (after the English-language market), accompanied by the increasingly global activities of multinational corporations in the entertainment industries, whose ownership was shared jointly by European (Philips/PolyGram, EMI, Bertelsmann) or Japanese (Matsushita, Sony) conglomerates. The so-called dual-broadcasting system was finally established in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1987, creating opportunities for private broadcasters to compete with public networks for advertising revenue and audience ratings, and providing impetus to broadcast to specifically segmented popular music audiences. Many important centers for popular-music production emerged in cities like Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Hannover, and Munich. Television established shows catering to a wide variety of different popular music audiences. Musikantenstadl, for example, was coproduced by the major German and Austrian networks (ARD and ORF) and featured folk music; the ZDF Hitparade, produced by the second major German network, was devoted to German Schlager, and shows like Formel I or Beat Club focused on Anglo-American rock and pop. Groups like BAP (Cologne) and vocalist Udo Lindenberg (Hamburg) became emblematic stars for West German rock music, particularly in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These musicians were involved in controversies with the East German authorities while East German bands embarked on West German tours throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Some West German bands and vocalists, such as Kraftwerk, Nena, Nina Hagen, and the Scorpions, released hit recordings in the United States and established themselves beyond the regional market, even if only for short periods.
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- The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990A Handbook, pp. 341 - 348Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004