Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction

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The volume explores the various intersections and interconnections of the self and popular music in fiction; it examines questions of musical taste and identity construction across decades, spaces, social groups, and cultural contexts, covering a wide range of literary and musical genres. Contents Notes on Contributors 1 Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction • Norbert Bachleitner and Juliane Werner Part 1: Popular Music Styles, Taste, and (Fan) Identities 2 On the End(s) of Identity: Pop Music and the Fictional Self • Claus-Ulrich Viol 3 The Three Ages of Fan: Identity, Irony, and Post-Postmodernism in Roddy Doyle’s Popular Music Narratives • Jeffrey Roessner 4 Shaman or Messiah?: The Record Seller as a Higher Being in Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex • Diedrich Diederichsen 5 Changing Infrastructures of Musical Taste Formation? • Jonathan Kropf 6 ‘Popularity Is a Game’: Music, Identity, and the Popular in Tom Cho’s Look Who’s Morphing • Thomas Gurke Part 2: Cultural Contexts, Memoryscapes, and the Biographical Self 7 Montreal Bohemia and the Mile End Apartment Party Scene • Will Straw 8 Appropriations in Pop: Cultural Appropriation, Gentrification, and Retromania in Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue, and Paul Beatty’s Slumberland • Simon Nagy 9 A New Male Middle- Class Self?: Rock Music in Norwegian Novels,1966–1984 • Klaus Nathaus 10 Music, Media, and Memories in Serhiy Zhadan’s Voroshilovgrad • Hannah Schroder 11 An Alternative Jazz Biography: Ronald Pohl’s Kind aus Blau • Norbert Bachleitner 12 Musical Self- Remembrance in Contemporary Literature: Reflections on Friedrich Christian Delius’s Die Zukunft der Schönheit • Nicola Gess Part 3: Intermedial Encounters, the Poetics of Pop, and Musician(s’) Fiction 13 How to Create a Unique Atmosphere in Fiction and Recorded Music: Frank Witzel and The Beatles • Peter Apfl 14 Intermedial Resonances and Narrative Dissonances in Steve Earle’s Music and Literature • Daniel Stein 15 Fictitious Musicians – Fictitious Music? • Daniel Syrovy 16 Fictional Transfigurations of Bob Dylan, or Writing the Unknowable • Juliane Werner 17 To Believe in Neil Young: His Music, Navid Kermani, the Prophet, and Søren Kierkegaard • Stefan Kutzenberger 18 Reading as Listening – Listening as Reading: Rock Novels from My Bookshelf • Simon Frith