In this book, native popular musicologists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland focus on their own popular music in the widest sense, for the first time: from subcultural to mainstream phenomena and from the 1950s to contemporary acts. Starting with an introduction and two chapters on the histories of German popular music and its study, the volume then concentrates on focused, detailed and yet concise close readings from different perspectives (including particular historical East and West German perspectives), mostly focusing on the music and its protagonists. Moreover, these analyses...