Of Germanic eddies in the Black Atlantic: Electronica and (post-)national identity in the music of Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle (F.S.K.) and in Thomas Meinecke's novel Hellblau (2001).
- Publisher:
- Intellect Books
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Journal of European Popular Culture, 2012, 2 (1), pp. 65 - 80
- Issue Date:
- 2012-01
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Attention has been drawn to German music's inspirational role in the 'birth' of techno and house in the United States, as well as to Germany's pre-eminent place in the recent development of electronic dance music. Some even suggest that techno might be inherently German. Yet whilst electronica seems to offer materials with which to imagine Germanness, an alternative reading is available. This article specifically examines how discourses about electronica and (post-)national identity intersect in Thomas Meinecke's recent musical oeuvre with Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle (FSK), which has for some years been involved in its own adaptations of electronica, and in his later novels, especially Hellblau. Both advance a celebratory reading of the international spread of electronica - and of the productive 'transatlantic feedback' between Germany and the United States - which is consistent not only with a long-standing German trope associated with African American forms of music (especially jazz), but also with more recent, postmodern approaches to identity
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