In terms of musical style, the sizeable catalogue of music that falls under the label of Krautrock is as diverse as it is experimental. The difficulty in pinning down a specific ‘sound‘ for this diverse body of music can be traced to its roots in the period of cultural revival in the 1950s and 1960s. The chapter discusses how the desire to create a new German identity, distanced from the crimes of the Nazi present and freer from the influence of American culture, was reflected in this music: Krautrock musicians began to abandon the characteristics of both Anglo-American popular musics such as beat and rock ‘n’ roll, and the prevailing German style of the time, Schlager, endeavouring to create something entirely original. The chapter demonstrates how Krautrock was initially better defined by what it was not, rather than what it specifically was. However, these radically different approaches to newness shared certain characteristics. As the chapter argues, Krautrock musicians embraced innovative approaches to instrumentation, timbre, the voice, texture, and form, generating a new musical vocabulary that they could call their own.

A stated goal of language documentation is to make language resources available for use in language revitalization. This chapter identifies some limitations and challenges of working with language documentation materials, particularly legacy (historical) documents and resources in digital language archives. It then suggests ways that language documenters can make their work more useful for revitalization purposes. It identifies often-ignored areas that documentation should target, such as family language, everyday usage and young people’s speech, and suggests further contextual information and metadata that should be included. Language revitalizers can also adopt the methods, practices and tools of language documenters and should be encouraged to document the processes, decision-making, events, successes and failures of their work so that they and others can learn from them. The capsules present technical advice on making audio and video language documentation recordings; a community-based research model for field methods courses on revitalization; and outcomes of a pilot study on Alznerish conducted during a field school in Poland, with methodological proposals for short-term studies.