CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. Introduction INTO THE MUSIC ROOMS 1
5. Chapter 1 Licht aus–Spot an: How Schlager (ZDF 1969–1984) Beat Disco (ZDF 1971–1982) 13
6. Chapter 2 The Birth of Autotune and the Loop of (West) German Identity 25
7. Chapter 3 Wenn eine Band lange Zeit lebt: Puhdys, Politics, and Popularity 43
8. Chapter 4 DIY, im Eigenverlag: East German Tamizdat LPs 62
9. Chapter 5 Poetry of an Alien: Black Tape, Silo Nation, and the Historiography of German Hip-Hop’s Alte Schule 84
10. Chapter 6 Death in June and the Apoliteic Specter of Neofolk in Germany 106
11. Chapter 7 Knitted Naked Suits and Shedding Skins: The Body Politics of Popfeminist Musical Performances in the Twenty-first Century 126
12. Chapter 8 Searching for the Young Soul Rebels: On Writing, New Wave, and the Ends of Cultural Studies 144
13. INDEX 164