TY - CHAP

T1 - Pophörspiel

T2 - Popular music in radio art

AU - Schulze, Holger

PY - 2016/1/1

Y1 - 2016/1/1

N2 - We hear glass breaking against the background of a cheap beat and a quirky, repetitive electronic bassline that is somehow theatrical. Farther away, we hear the shouts and sounds of human aggression. Something violent and emotional is happening and, back in the foreground, a smooth and soothing voice – a female news presenter – reports rather unemotionally about this emotional instance behind her: we hear the sound of a world as captured by the administration. It is all quite strange. What are we actually listening to? We are in fact listening to a 7″ single, and we are listening to a political protest. The protest occurred in 1981 in West Berlin, on the Kurfürstendamm, or the ‘Kudamm’ in local argot. The record, on which this boulevard is the main actor in a political performance, is called ‘Berlin Q-Damm 12.4.81’, released by the record label Riskant from Cologne. This label, focusing mostly on industrial and new wave music – and with a fish on chicken legs for its logo – would later include this political protest cum musical composition on the album ‘Der Durchdrungene Mensch/Indianer von Morgen’ (The Permeated Man/Indians of Tomorrow) by Heiner Goebbels and Alfred Harth.

AB - We hear glass breaking against the background of a cheap beat and a quirky, repetitive electronic bassline that is somehow theatrical. Farther away, we hear the shouts and sounds of human aggression. Something violent and emotional is happening and, back in the foreground, a smooth and soothing voice – a female news presenter – reports rather unemotionally about this emotional instance behind her: we hear the sound of a world as captured by the administration. It is all quite strange. What are we actually listening to? We are in fact listening to a 7″ single, and we are listening to a political protest. The protest occurred in 1981 in West Berlin, on the Kurfürstendamm, or the ‘Kudamm’ in local argot. The record, on which this boulevard is the main actor in a political performance, is called ‘Berlin Q-Damm 12.4.81’, released by the record label Riskant from Cologne. This label, focusing mostly on industrial and new wave music – and with a fish on chicken legs for its logo – would later include this political protest cum musical composition on the album ‘Der Durchdrungene Mensch/Indianer von Morgen’ (The Permeated Man/Indians of Tomorrow) by Heiner Goebbels and Alfred Harth.

KW - Music education

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020343211&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/67e31bbb-868c-3636-ad18-e46c57cc153e/

U2 - 10.4324/9781315600208

DO - 10.4324/9781315600208

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85020343211

SN - 9781472479624

SP - 67

EP - 73

BT - Perspectives on German Popular Music

A2 - Ahlers, Michael

A2 - Jacke, Christoph

PB - Taylor and Francis Inc.

ER -