Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: Historical Roots and Official Stories -- An Alternative History of Pop -- Under Construction: Andreas Neumeister's Pop Modern Historiographies -- Section 2: Alternative Voices and Vantage Points -- The Pop-Nostalgia of Sven Regener and Leander Haußmann -- Pop-Cultural Camera Interventions: Kanak TV -- Section 3: Pop and Gender -- Bodily Harm: Pop Masculinity in Benjamin Lebert's Crazy and Der Vogel ist ein Rabe -- 'There's No Lobby for Girls in Pop': Writing the Performative Popfeminist Subject -- Generation Golf Meets Zonenkinder: Gender, (N)ostalgia and the Berlin Republic -- Section 4: Pop in the New Millennium -- The Party's Over: PeterLicht and the End of Capitalism -- Fear of the Queer? On Homosexuality, Masculinity and the Auratic in Christian Kracht's Anti-Pop Pop Novels -- Pop Eats Itself: Crisis Discourse, the Literary Market and Pop Performance in Joachim Lottmann's Novels -- Pop vs. Plagiarism: Popliterary Intertextuality, Author Performance and the Disappearance of Originality in Helene Hegemann -- Pop Literature: A Bibliography -- Index.