A fragile kaleidoskop: institutions, methodologies and outlooks on German popular music (studies)

The present volume attempts to assemble the full range of methodological and disciplinary approaches to popular music within the Germanophone countries. In co-ordinating such a project, however, it quickly becomes clear how fragmented and fragile such a kaleidoscope of assorted perspectives has to remain if one does not wish it to become a multi-volume compendium, and if one wants to complete the project successfully and by an agreed-upon deadline. Just as rapidly as pop keeps reinventing itself and re-citing itself, German-speaking Europe presently continues to experience a rapid emergence of new publications, studies, organizations and journalistic or academic discourses about it.