Uwe Schütte worked as a Reader in German in British higher education until Brexit. Now based in Berlin, he is Privatdozent at the University of Göttingen. Schütte has edited some ten volumes and written more than fifteen monographs on contemporary German-language literature and German pop music, with a focus on W. G. Sebald and Kraftwerk.

• Introduction Uwe Schütte; Part I. Context: 1. Krautrock: definitions, concepts, contexts Ulrich Adelt; 2. Krautrock and the radical politics of 1968 Detlef Siegfried; 3. Krautrock in the British and American Music press Alexander Simmeth; 4. Infrastructure of the German music business Jan-Peter Herbst; 5. The sound of krautrock Heather Moore; Part II. Music: 6. Kraftwerk Uwe Schütte; 7. Can Patrick Glen; 8. Tangerine dream Sean Nye and Michael Krikorian; 9. Neu! David Stubbs; 10. Faust Alexander Henkle; 11. Cluster/Harmonia David Pattie; 12. Popol Vuh Sascha Seiler; 13. Ash Ra Tempel, Manuel Göttsching and Klaus Schulze Pertti Grönholm; 14. Amon Düül II Ryan Iseppi; 15. The flip side of Krautrock Jens Balzer; Part III. Legacy: 16. Krautrock and German Punk Jeff Hayton; 17. Krautrock and British post-punk Alexander Carpenter; 18. Krautrock and German Free Jazz, Kraut Fusion, Detroit Techno Marcus Barnes; 19. Krautrock Today Alex Harden; Index.

'The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock is a valuable resource for both scholars and fans of German music of the 1970s, offering rigorous and historically grounded analysis of the kind that this supremely rich and intoxicating era of experimental rock and electronic music deserves.' Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–84