Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende Neubauten

Jennifer Shryane provides a much-needed analysis of EinstÃ1/4rzende Neubauten's important place in popular/experimental music history. She illustrates their innovations with found- and self-constructed instrumentation their Artaudian performance strategies and textual concerns as well as their methods of independence. The group have also made a consistent and unique contribution to the development of the independent German Language Contemporary Music scene which although often acknowledged as influential is still rarely examined.