Description: This companion provides a comprehensive overview of German pop music from the post-war period to the present. It highlights specific German varieties of pop music within an international context with chapters on German punk, industrial music and tec
Brief description: Uwe Schütte, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
Review Quotes: "Indeed, German Pop Music: A Companion is aimed at (primarily anglophone) students and scholars in German Studies, providing a non-music-specialist introduction to the field of Popular Music Studies while also mapping the territory where popular music and German history intersect. [...] While each chapter can be read fruitfully as a stand-alone essay, there is also a narrative thread discernible throughout the book, with each chapter picking up where the previous one left off. [...] German Pop Music provides an informative, accessible, and much-needed anglophone introduction to the field of German Popular Music Studies."
Luis-Manuel Garcia in: Modern Language Review, Vol. 113 (2018), Part 2, 449-451