Gesamtkunstwerk Laibach

For nearly forty years now, the Slovenian art collective Laibach have fascinated their audience with totalitarian symbolism and constantly changing music styles. In this volume, German- and English-speaking scholars examine the elusive phenomenon that is Laibach using a variety of perspectives and approaches in survey chapters and individual case studies that cover the entirety of Laibach’s oeuvre, from the group’s beginnings in post-Tito Yugoslavia in the early 1980s, up to their 2017 album Also sprach Zarathustra.

Gesamtkunstwerk Laibach offers exciting new interpretations of a band that continues to thrive artistically, astonishing the international cultural scene with their unpredictability and genius for provocation.