Ulrich Adelt
Biographic Data
| ID | 842148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrich Adelt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrich |
| FAMILY NAME | Adelt |
| SIGNATURE | ADELT U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wyoming |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
No Old Time Rock and Roll: Gendered History in Guitar Hero and The Beatles Rock Band
In this article, I situate Guitar Hero and Rock Band within the history of the electric guitar. I argue that by reframing a cultural icon, the two games challenge hero worship through humor while simultaneously participating in a problematic celebration of rock masculinity. The massive popularity of the games in the years between 2005 and 2009 came at a moment of cultural change when the electric guitar had become much less prominent; drawing on …
Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post–Civil Rights Era: An “Integrated Effort
Journal Article Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post–Civil Rights Era: An "Integrated Effort." Get access Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post–Civil Rights Era: An "Integrated Effort." By Beth Fowler. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. x, 363 pp. $100.00.) Ulrich Adelt Ulrich Adelt University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Let There Be Guitar: Rhythm Techniques in the Music of Malcolm Young, Maybelle Carter, and Bob Marley
By closely analyzing the work of three musicians, this article considers rhythm guitar techniques, a much-neglected aspect of artistic expression. Malcolm Young of AC/DC provided the underappreciated riff-based foundation for his more famous brother Angus’s soloing, but overall the group’s output still came with the baggage of rock music’s inherent sexism. Disregarding strict genre classifications and turning to folk or early country (exemplified…
G erald H orne . Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
In his latest book Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music, Gerald Horne offers a sweeping history of jazz from its origins in New Orleans in the late nineteenth century to the present day, from Jelly Roll Morton to Kamasi Washington, with myriad examples of oppression that have informed the music’s development. In his own words, the book documents “terribly destructive forces—racism, organized criminality, brutal labor ex…
Electrifying the Beat: Rhythm Guitar Performances of Keith Richards, Joan Jett, and Nile Rodgers
By closely studying three key musicians—Keith Richards, Joan Jett, and Nile Rodgers—I argue that rhythm guitar playing, while maintaining some of rock music’s appropriation of blackness and coding as masculine, allows for a more fluid understanding of sound and genre. Richards’s pioneering rhythm technique defined rock vis-à-vis blues and largely relied on traditional understandings of racialized identity and gender, whereas Joan Jett consciously…
Displaying the Guitar: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Museum of Pop Culture
In this essay, I look closely at two museum sites, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Rock Hall) in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington, in the context of the field of museum studies. I analyze how their representations of popular music, in particular their depictions of electric guitars, echo as well as shape racialized, gendered, and otherwise “identified” views of what can loosely be defined as…
Outside Looking In: Donna Summer's Sound of Munich and David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy
Ulrich Adelt, "Outside Looking In: Donna Summer's Sound of Munich and David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy," in Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), 129-60, 209-13
Jack Hamilton. Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
In Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, Jack Hamilton uses six case studies to show “how rock and roll music—a genre rooted in African American musical traditions, and many of whose earliest stars were black—came to be understood as the natural province of whites” (3). According to Hamilton, this narrative relies on constructions of black music as collective and traditional and white music as individual artistic express…
Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
The companion book to an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen's Folk City offers a long essay on aspects of the folk music revival in New York City between the 1920s and the 1970s, many photographs, and recollections by protagonists involved in the revival. Chapters focus on the emergence of the radio and recording industries in New York City, political activism and commodification, Washington Squar…
B. B. King, 1925–2015
B. B. King, who passed away at age 89 on 14 May 2015, was undoubtedly one of the towering figures not just of blues music but even more broadly of popular music in the 20th century. His story is th...
Punk Rock and German Crisis: Adaptation and Resistance after 1977
Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism
Journal Article Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism Get access Devon Powers. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. xiv, 160 pp. Cloth, $80.00. Paper, $22.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau515 Published: 01 December 2014
Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes
Drawing on Arjun Appadurai's notion of mediascapes from his seminal Modernity at Large (1990), Maria Stehle discusses the depiction of urban ghettoes in German literature (textscapes), movies (film
Stunde Null: Postwar German Identity in the Music of Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger
Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: An Introduction
Machines with a Heart: German Identity in the Music of Can and Kraftwerk
This essay compares Can and Kraftwerk, two bands associated with Krautrock, a branch of West German rock and electronic music from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Both bands created a new, postwar German identity that engaged with and set itself apart from the Nazi past and the influx of Anglo-American music into West Germany. This new German identity was connected to technological inventions and blending "man-made" and "machine-made" music, as w…
Soul Music: Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
Joel Rudinow, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-472-05108-3; 978-0-472-07108-1, 250 pp, $28.95 (pb), $75.00 (hb) Academic books generally come with titles that have two
Black, White, and Blue: Racial Politics in B.B. King's Music from the 1960s
Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues
David Evans (Ed.), Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-252-03203-5 (cloth), 978-0-252-07448-6 (paperback), 440 pp, $75.00 (cloth), $27.00 (paperback) There is so
Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain
Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain MICHAEL PICKERING Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008 ISBN 978‐0‐7546‐5859‐7 253 pp., $99.95 Michael Pickering contributes to the growing scholarship on blackface minstrel
Trying to Find an Identity: Eric Clapton's Changing Conception of “Blackness”
This essay seeks to connect rock star Eric 's music from the 1960s with the history of Norman Mailer Mailer, Norman. 1957. The White Negro, San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books. [Google Scholar]'s notion of the “white negro” in a particular British context. In his search for an authenticated identity, turned to a problematic construction of black masculinity. employed a more fluid approach to the racialization of musical genres with the group Cre…
Germany Gets the Blues: Negotiations of "Race" and Nation at the American Folk Blues Festival
In this essay, I focus on the emergence of a transatlantic blues culture by analyzing the work of two German concert promoters, Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau. Lippmann and Rau organized the American Folk Blues Festival in both Germanys and other European countries beginning in 1962. I argue that Lippmann and Rau supported attempts to claim middle-class respectability for jazz and the blues and saw a potential for modernizing West and East Germany …
Punk Productions: Unfinished Business
Ich bin der Rock'n'Roll‐Übermensch”: Globalization and Localization in German Music Television
Current debates on globalization have taken into account indigenization and hybridization as strategies of supporting local cultures against the threat of homogenization. As the development of the German music television networks MTV Germany and Viva TV shows, fostering local culture is an economic necessity. Although both networks contribute to an influx of British and American music into Germany, they also feature a large quantity of music vide…
Ich bin der Rock'n'Roll‐Übermensch”: Globalization and Localization in German Music Television
Current debates on globalization have taken into account indigenization and hybridization as strategies of supporting local cultures against the threat of homogenization. As the development of the German music television networks MTV Germany and Viva TV shows, fostering local culture is an economic necessity. Although both networks contribute to an influx of British and American music into Germany, they also feature a large quantity of music vide…
Machines with a Heart: German Identity in the Music of Can and Kraftwerk
This essay compares Can and Kraftwerk, two bands associated with Krautrock, a branch of West German rock and electronic music from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Both bands created a new, postwar German identity that engaged with and set itself apart from the Nazi past and the influx of Anglo-American music into West Germany. This new German identity was connected to technological inventions and blending "man-made" and "machine-made" music, as w…
Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues
David Evans (Ed.), Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-252-03203-5 (cloth), 978-0-252-07448-6 (paperback), 440 pp, $75.00 (cloth), $27.00 (paperback) There is so
Trying to Find an Identity: Eric Clapton's Changing Conception of “Blackness”
This essay seeks to connect rock star Eric 's music from the 1960s with the history of Norman Mailer Mailer, Norman. 1957. The White Negro, San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books. [Google Scholar]'s notion of the “white negro” in a particular British context. In his search for an authenticated identity, turned to a problematic construction of black masculinity. employed a more fluid approach to the racialization of musical genres with the group Cre…
Germany Gets the Blues: Negotiations of "Race" and Nation at the American Folk Blues Festival
In this essay, I focus on the emergence of a transatlantic blues culture by analyzing the work of two German concert promoters, Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau. Lippmann and Rau organized the American Folk Blues Festival in both Germanys and other European countries beginning in 1962. I argue that Lippmann and Rau supported attempts to claim middle-class respectability for jazz and the blues and saw a potential for modernizing West and East Germany …
Ich bin der Rock'n'Roll‐Übermensch”: Globalization and Localization in German Music Television
Current debates on globalization have taken into account indigenization and hybridization as strategies of supporting local cultures against the threat of homogenization. As the development of the German music television networks MTV Germany and Viva TV shows, fostering local culture is an economic necessity. Although both networks contribute to an influx of British and American music into Germany, they also feature a large quantity of music vide…
Punk Productions: Unfinished Business
Trying to Find an Identity: Eric Clapton's Changing Conception of “Blackness”
This essay seeks to connect rock star Eric 's music from the 1960s with the history of Norman Mailer Mailer, Norman. 1957. The White Negro, San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books. [Google Scholar]'s notion of the “white negro” in a particular British context. In his search for an authenticated identity, turned to a problematic construction of black masculinity. employed a more fluid approach to the racialization of musical genres with the group Cre…
Germany Gets the Blues: Negotiations of "Race" and Nation at the American Folk Blues Festival
In this essay, I focus on the emergence of a transatlantic blues culture by analyzing the work of two German concert promoters, Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau. Lippmann and Rau organized the American Folk Blues Festival in both Germanys and other European countries beginning in 1962. I argue that Lippmann and Rau supported attempts to claim middle-class respectability for jazz and the blues and saw a potential for modernizing West and East Germany …
Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues
David Evans (Ed.), Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-252-03203-5 (cloth), 978-0-252-07448-6 (paperback), 440 pp, $75.00 (cloth), $27.00 (paperback) There is so
Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain
Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain MICHAEL PICKERING Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008 ISBN 978‐0‐7546‐5859‐7 253 pp., $99.95 Michael Pickering contributes to the growing scholarship on blackface minstrel
Soul Music: Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
Joel Rudinow, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-472-05108-3; 978-0-472-07108-1, 250 pp, $28.95 (pb), $75.00 (hb) Academic books generally come with titles that have two
Black, White, and Blue: Racial Politics in B.B. King's Music from the 1960s
Stunde Null: Postwar German Identity in the Music of Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger
Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: An Introduction
Machines with a Heart: German Identity in the Music of Can and Kraftwerk
This essay compares Can and Kraftwerk, two bands associated with Krautrock, a branch of West German rock and electronic music from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Both bands created a new, postwar German identity that engaged with and set itself apart from the Nazi past and the influx of Anglo-American music into West Germany. This new German identity was connected to technological inventions and blending "man-made" and "machine-made" music, as w…
Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes
Drawing on Arjun Appadurai's notion of mediascapes from his seminal Modernity at Large (1990), Maria Stehle discusses the depiction of urban ghettoes in German literature (textscapes), movies (film
Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism
Journal Article Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism Get access Devon Powers. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. xiv, 160 pp. Cloth, $80.00. Paper, $22.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau515 Published: 01 December 2014
Punk Rock and German Crisis: Adaptation and Resistance after 1977
B. B. King, 1925–2015
B. B. King, who passed away at age 89 on 14 May 2015, was undoubtedly one of the towering figures not just of blues music but even more broadly of popular music in the 20th century. His story is th...
Displaying the Guitar: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Museum of Pop Culture
In this essay, I look closely at two museum sites, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Rock Hall) in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington, in the context of the field of museum studies. I analyze how their representations of popular music, in particular their depictions of electric guitars, echo as well as shape racialized, gendered, and otherwise “identified” views of what can loosely be defined as…
Outside Looking In: Donna Summer's Sound of Munich and David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy
Ulrich Adelt, "Outside Looking In: Donna Summer's Sound of Munich and David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy," in Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), 129-60, 209-13
Jack Hamilton. Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
In Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, Jack Hamilton uses six case studies to show “how rock and roll music—a genre rooted in African American musical traditions, and many of whose earliest stars were black—came to be understood as the natural province of whites” (3). According to Hamilton, this narrative relies on constructions of black music as collective and traditional and white music as individual artistic express…
Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
The companion book to an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen's Folk City offers a long essay on aspects of the folk music revival in New York City between the 1920s and the 1970s, many photographs, and recollections by protagonists involved in the revival. Chapters focus on the emergence of the radio and recording industries in New York City, political activism and commodification, Washington Squar…
Electrifying the Beat: Rhythm Guitar Performances of Keith Richards, Joan Jett, and Nile Rodgers
By closely studying three key musicians—Keith Richards, Joan Jett, and Nile Rodgers—I argue that rhythm guitar playing, while maintaining some of rock music’s appropriation of blackness and coding as masculine, allows for a more fluid understanding of sound and genre. Richards’s pioneering rhythm technique defined rock vis-à-vis blues and largely relied on traditional understandings of racialized identity and gender, whereas Joan Jett consciously…
G erald H orne . Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
In his latest book Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music, Gerald Horne offers a sweeping history of jazz from its origins in New Orleans in the late nineteenth century to the present day, from Jelly Roll Morton to Kamasi Washington, with myriad examples of oppression that have informed the music’s development. In his own words, the book documents “terribly destructive forces—racism, organized criminality, brutal labor ex…
Let There Be Guitar: Rhythm Techniques in the Music of Malcolm Young, Maybelle Carter, and Bob Marley
By closely analyzing the work of three musicians, this article considers rhythm guitar techniques, a much-neglected aspect of artistic expression. Malcolm Young of AC/DC provided the underappreciated riff-based foundation for his more famous brother Angus’s soloing, but overall the group’s output still came with the baggage of rock music’s inherent sexism. Disregarding strict genre classifications and turning to folk or early country (exemplified…
Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post–Civil Rights Era: An “Integrated Effort
Journal Article Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post–Civil Rights Era: An "Integrated Effort." Get access Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post–Civil Rights Era: An "Integrated Effort." By Beth Fowler. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. x, 363 pp. $100.00.) Ulrich Adelt Ulrich Adelt University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
No Old Time Rock and Roll: Gendered History in Guitar Hero and The Beatles Rock Band
In this article, I situate Guitar Hero and Rock Band within the history of the electric guitar. I argue that by reframing a cultural icon, the two games challenge hero worship through humor while simultaneously participating in a problematic celebration of rock masculinity. The massive popularity of the games in the years between 2005 and 2009 came at a moment of cultural change when the electric guitar had become much less prominent; drawing on …
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