Rammstein on Fire: New Perspectives on the Music and Performances

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments  v
• Introduction: Gaining an Academic Appreciation of Rammstein  1
• Part I: Experiencing Rammstein
• 1. Industrial Humor and Rammstein’s Postmodern Politics (Patricia Anne Simpson)  9
• 2. Metamodernist Form, “Reader-Response” and the Politics of Rammstein: What Rammstein Means When You Don’t Understand the Lyrics (David A. Robinson)  30
• 3. Rammstein Are Laibach for Adolescents and Laibach Are Rammstein for Grown-Ups (Daniel Lukes)  53
• 4. Über Alles: Rock Bands Following in the Wake of Rammstein
• (Brad Klypchak)  79
• Part II: Rammstein, Literature and Culture
• 5. Heimatsehnsucht: Rammstein and the Search for Cultural Identity
• (Nick Henry and Juliane Schicker)  99
• 6. Rammstein Rocking the Republic: A Cultural Reading of the Trans/National Shock ’n’ Roll Circus (Corinna Kahnke)  120
• 7. A Carnivalesque Cannibal: Armin Meiwes, “Mein Teil” and Representations of Homosexuality (Karley K. Adney)  133
• 8. Fear, Desire and the Fairy Tale Femme Fatale in Rammstein’s “Rosenrot” (Erin Sweeney Smith)  150
• 9. Rammstein, Johann Gottfried Herder and the Origin of Rock and Roll (Simon Richter)  173
• 10. Love as a Battlefield: Reading Rammstein as Dark Romantics (Martina Lüke)  189
• 11. Liebe ist für Alle Da: A Visual Analysis of Rammstein’s 2009 Album Artwork (Robert G. H. Burns)  216
• Part III: The Elemental and the Metaphysical
• 12. Fire, Water, Earth and Air: The Elemental Rammstein (John T. Littlejohn)  229
• 13. Discipleship in the Church of Rammstein (Michael T. Putnam)  250
• About the Contributors  269
• Index  273