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Future Days. Krautrock And The Building Of Modern Germany. By David Stubbs. Faber & Faber, €25. Reviewed by Jonathan O’Brien.

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Future Days

**Krautrock And The Building Of Modern Germany**

**By** David Stubbs

**Faber & Faber,** €25

**Reviewed by** Jonathan O’Brien

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‘Krautrock”. Say it out loud for the full effect. Crass, isn’t it? Even in the dinosaurish 1970s, it would have felt and sounded like an unappealingly xenophobic term. In today’s allegedly more enlightened times, it sounds to the ear and looks in print like a relic from a Stan Boardman routine.

But ...