demusic1-9, Exercise 3: Who is German music for?

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How they changed it: Turkish-German artists, children and grandchildren of the guest-worker generation, became central to German hip-hop and pop. They rap in German, Turkish and a mixed city slang, and write about German streets and their families' history. This shows that German music is made by, and for, a population wider than ethnic Germans, and many of the most successful acts of recent years come from this background.

One reason it has been debated: public argument over immigration and integration spilled into discussion of lyrics and image, with some politicians and critics questioning whether the music was "German" or objecting to particular lyrics, while the artists reply that they are German and that the criticism treats them as outsiders.

A balanced view reports both the creative achievement and the debate, and notes that the debate is part of a wider argument about who belongs.