Blumfeld und die Hamburger Schule. Sekundarität – Intertextualität – Diskurspop
The 'historisation and relativisation of all elements in music' ("Historisierung und Relativierung aller Musikelemente") that Diedrich Diedrichsen attributed to progressive pop tendencies of the early 1980's can be observed with 1990's bands such as Blumfield, Die Sterne and Tocotronic and now pertains to modalities of expression at large. A fragile, context-bound 'I' reflects on musical structures within the medium of pop, especially under German conditions and in the German language. Keywords such as "Discursive Pop" and "Hamburg School" quickly prop up. Based on a comprehensive corpus of materials, Till Huber presents the first extensive study on the phenomenon of Discursive Pop. The author draws on detailed song analyses to introduce the most relevant methods, dissects sources in order to explain aspects pertaining to the history of "Hamburg School" and how it has been dealt with in research ever since, correcting widespread myths. The early work of one of Hamburg School's most prominent bands, Blumberg, is set as an attempt at critical commitment in the medium of pop, without falling short of the level of complexity of poststructuralist theories.
Subject: Germanistik, Neue deutsche Literatur
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Moritz Baßler, Prof. Dr. Mark Stein, Prof. Dr. Eckhard Schumacher