Alpine rock

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Alpine rock is a music style in which musical elements and instruments of traditional folk and folk music are combined with rock music and song lyrics in Alpine dialects.

history

Since the 1970s, comparable directions have emerged in Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland. The first representatives in Bavaria were Willy Michl and in Switzerland the groups Span and Rumpelstilz . An early form of alpine rock in Austria was Austropop with performers such as Wolfgang Ambros and Rainhard Fendrich . Parallel to the New Deutsche Welle in the 1980s, Austropop and dialect rock experienced a second phase. With the so-called new folk music since the early 1990s, alpine rock, represented for example by Attwenger or Hubert von Goisern , became known to a wider audience.

There is, however, no uniform definition. Otto Staniloi, a member of the Spider Murphy Gang , once said that alpine rock was “nothing really new, but it combines the elements of German-language modern music ( folk music and rock ) in a new way. The elemental force and swing of folk music with the memorable rhythm, precision, hardness, zeitgeist and the musical esprit of rock music, paired with witty lyrics in Bavarian or Austrian dialect. "

Since 2012 there has also been an annual festival under the name AlpRock , which served this genre of music, but has now moved far from its origins and now lets more rock-heavy bands perform.

"Alpenrock" is also a four-part documentary film series that the director and author Annette Hopfenmüller realized in 2002 for ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk (participants: Wolfgang Ambros , Konstantin Wecker , Hubert von Goisern , Spider Murphy Gang , Rainhard Fendrich , Georg Danzer and many others).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A short history of alpine rock on the Hubert von Goisern website
  2. ↑ Article about alpine rocker Hubert von Goisern in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  3. ↑ Otto Staniloi: Musicians with body and soul in Siebenbürgische Zeitung from July 8, 2004

literature

  • Christian Glanz: "From Wienerlied to Alpine Rock: New Folk Music", in: Barbara Denscher (Ed.), Art and Culture in Austria. The 20th Century, Vienna, Munich 1999, pp. 274–275.

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