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German electronic music gained global influence, with Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream being pioneer groups in this genre. [2][3] The electro and techno scene is internationally popular, namely due to the DJs Paul van Dyk, Scooter and Cascada. Germany hosts many large rock music festivals.
This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This is a list of the German Media Control Top100 Singles Chart number-ones of 1960. Issue date Song Artist 2 January ...
World War II was the first conflict to take place in the age of electronically distributed music. Many people in the war had a pressing need to be able to listen to the radio and 78-rpm shellac records en masse. By 1940, 96.2% of Northeastern American urban households had radio. The lowest American demographic to embrace mass-distributed music ...
Music in Nazi Germany, like all cultural activities in the regime, was controlled and "co-ordinated" (Gleichschaltung) by various entities of the state and the Nazi Party, with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and the prominent Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg playing leading – and competing – roles. The primary concerns of these ...
Song Artist(s) Wks. Year(s) Ref. "Ganz Paris träumt von der Liebe" Caterina Valente and Kurt Edelhagen: 21 1955 [1] "Heimweh" Freddy Quinn 1956 "Cindy, Oh Cindy" Margot Eskens: 1957 "Die Gitarre und das Meer" Freddy Quinn 17 1959 "Rivers of Babylon" Boney M. 1978 [2] "Despacito" Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee: 2017 [3] "Verdammt, ich lieb ...
Origins. "Erika" is both a common German female name and the German word for heather. The lyrics and melody of the song were written by Herms Niel, a German composer of marches. The exact year of the song's origin is not known; often the date is given as "about 1930", [3] but this has never been substantiated.
The Horst-Wessel-Lied ("Song of Horst Wessel"), also known as Die Fahne Hoch ("The Flag Raised"), was the official anthem of the NSDAP. The song was written by Horst Wessel, a party activist and SA leader, who was killed by a member of the Communist Party of Germany. After his death, he was proclaimed a "martyr" by the NSDAP, and his song ...
The "Deutschlandlied" (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃlantˌliːt] ⓘ; "Germany Song"), officially titled "Das Lied der Deutschen" (German: [das ˈliːt deːɐ̯ ˈdɔʏtʃn̩]; "The Song of the Germans"), has been the national anthem of Germany either wholly or in part since 1922, except for a seven-year gap following World War II in West Germany.