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Into the Groove
Popular Music and Contemporary German Fiction
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Andrew Wright Hurley
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English
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2015
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A new and wide-ranging view of the confluence, since the 1990s, of the fields of contemporary literature and popular music in Germany.
In Germany the decade beginning in the mid-1990s brought an unprecedented "confusion of the spheres" of literature and popular music. Popular musicians "crossed over" into the literary field, editors and writers called for contemporary German literature to become more like popular music, writers attempted to borrow structural aspects from music or paid new attention to popular music at the thematic level. Others sought to raise their profiles by means of performance models taken from the popular music field. This book sets out to make sense of this situation. It argues for more inclusive and detailed attention to what it calls "musico-centric fiction," for which it discerns intellectual precursors going back to the 1960s and also identifies examples written since the turn of the millennium, after the would-be death of "pop literature." In doing so, it focuses on fiction and paratextual interventions by authors including Peter Handke, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Rainald Goetz, Andreas Neumeister, Thomas Meinecke, Matthias Politycki, Frank Goosen, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, Thomas Brussig, Karen Duve, and Kerstin Grether.
Andrew Wright Hurley is Senior Lecturer in German and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
In Germany the decade beginning in the mid-1990s brought an unprecedented "confusion of the spheres" of literature and popular music. Popular musicians "crossed over" into the literary field, editors and writers called for contemporary German literature to become more like popular music, writers attempted to borrow structural aspects from music or paid new attention to popular music at the thematic level. Others sought to raise their profiles by means of performance models taken from the popular music field. This book sets out to make sense of this situation. It argues for more inclusive and detailed attention to what it calls "musico-centric fiction," for which it discerns intellectual precursors going back to the 1960s and also identifies examples written since the turn of the millennium, after the would-be death of "pop literature." In doing so, it focuses on fiction and paratextual interventions by authors including Peter Handke, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Rainald Goetz, Andreas Neumeister, Thomas Meinecke, Matthias Politycki, Frank Goosen, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, Thomas Brussig, Karen Duve, and Kerstin Grether.
Andrew Wright Hurley is Senior Lecturer in German and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1: Preludes and Returns: Popular Music, the ’68 Generation, and the Literarization of the Jukebox
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2: Enter the Double Agent: The German Popular Musician as Novelist
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3: Techno-Lit: Electronica and Its Impacts on Fiction
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4: Analogue is Better: Rock- and Pop-centric Literature
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5: After the GDR’s “Musical Niche Society”? Popular Music in the Literature of Thomas Brussig
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6: The Gendering of Popular Music in the Novels of Karen Duve and Kerstin Grether
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Conclusion: Out of the Groove?
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Bibliography
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Index
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April 3, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781782044307
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Camden House
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Keywords for this book
Popular Music; Contemporary Literature; German Literature; Musico-Centric Fiction; Peter Handke; Rolf Dieter Brinkmann; Rainald Goetz; Andreas Neumeister; Thomas Meinecke; Matthias Politycki; Frank Goosen; Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre; Thomas Brussig; Karen Duve; Kerstin Grether
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
