"Krautrock and its offshoots have had a tremendous impact on musical production and reception in Great Britain and the US since the 1970s. Genres such as indie, post-rock, EDM, and hip-hop have drawn heavily on Krautrock and have connected a music that initially disavowed its European American and African American origins with the lived experience of whites and blacks in the United States and Europe. At the same time, while reaching for an imagined cosmic community, Krautrock, not only by its name, stirs up essentialist notions of national identity and citizenship"--

Introduction Uwe Schütte; Part I. Context: 1. Krautrock: definitions, concepts, contexts Ulrich Adelt; 2. Krautrock and the radical politics of 1968 Detlef Siegfried; 3. Krautrock in the British and American Music press Alexander Simmeth; 4. Infrastructure of the German music business Jan-Peter Herbst; 5. The sound of krautrock Heather Moore; Part II. Music: 6. Kraftwerk Uwe Schütte; 7. Can Patrick Glen; 8. Tangerine dream Sean Nye and Michael Krikorian; 9. Neu! David Stubbs; 10. Faust Alexander Henkle; 11. Cluster/Harmonia David Pattie; 12. Popol Vuh Sascha Seiler; 13. Ash Ra Tempel, Manuel Göttsching and Klaus Schulze Pertti Grönholm; 14. Amon Düül II Ryan Iseppi; 15. The flip side of Krautrock Jens Balzer; Part III. Legacy: 16. Krautrock and German Punk Jeff Hayton; 17. Krautrock and British post-punk Alexander Carpenter; 18. Krautrock and German Free Jazz, Kraut Fusion, Detroit Techno Marcus Barnes; 19. Krautrock Today Alex Harden; Index.