Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1: Preludes and Returns: Popular Music, the ’68 Generation, and the Literarization of the Jukebox 21
6. 2: Enter the Double Agent: The German Popular Musician as Novelist 49
7. 3: Techno-Lit: Electronica and Its Impacts on Fiction 73
8. 4: Analogue is Better: Rock- and Pop-centric Literature 119
9. 5: After the GDR’s “Musical Niche Society”? Popular Music in the Literature of Thomas Brussig 159
10. 6: The Gendering of Popular Music in the Novels of Karen Duve and Kerstin Grether 193
11. Conclusion: Out of the Groove? 228
12. Bibliography 235
13. Index 263