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Abstract
Taking the music of NEU! as its object and Walter Benjamin's “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” as its theoretical touchstone, this paper performs an analysis of NEU!'s music and its contribution to the formation of a new German identity in the early 1970s. The paper concludes that, in their use of the skeletal motorik pulse of Krautrock and their ability to engender a critical positionality in the listener, NEU! produce a rubble music that takes the best from the German past and reassembles it into a roadmap for a new way forward.