Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The (Ger)man Machines -- I. Music, Technology and Culture -- 1. Autobahn and Heimatklänge: Soundtracking the FRG -- 2. Kraftwerk and the Image of the Modern -- 3. Kraftwerk - the Decline of the Pop Star -- 4. Authentic Replicants: Brothers between Decades between Kraftwerk(s) -- 5. Kraftwerk: Technology and Composition -- 6. Kraftwerk: Playing the Machines -- II. Influences and Legacies -- 7. Europe Non-Stop: West Germany, Britain and the Rise of Synthpop, 1975-81 -- 8. Vorsprung durch Technik - Kraftwerk and the British Fixation with Germany -- 9. 'Dragged into the Dance' - the Role of Kraftwerk in the Development of Electro- Funk -- 10. Average White Band: Kraftwerk and the Politics of Race -- 11. Trans-Europa Express: Tracing the Trance Machine -- Discography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.