Preludes and returns: popular music, the '68 generation, and the literarization of the jukebox -- Enter the double agent: the German popular musician as novelist -- Techno-lit: electronica and its impacts on fiction -- Analogue is better: rock- and pop-centric literature -- After the GDR's "musical niche society"? popular music in the literature of Thomas Brussig -- The gendering of popular music in the novels of Karen Duve and Kerstin Grether -- Conclusion: Out of the groove?