Introduction : Dissolution of Disciplines, or Kicking at Open Doors in Art?
Genealogies
Context Switching between Art and Pop Music
Art Form, Crossover, Hybridization
The Right Thing in the Wrong Space, the Wrong Thing in the Right Space : Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, and the Role Reversals of the Artist
Soup Cans, Early Factory
The Velvet Years, the Mainstream
Splits in the Counterculture
Factory Utopia, Factory Dystopia
Two Gurus in Drag : Yoko Ono and John Lennon Politicize the Role of the Pop Star
Reception History
Work Partners, Love Partners
Lennonʼs Art, Onoʼs Pop Music
Utopian Life Model
Time out of Joint : The Disjunction of Politics, Pop Music, and Art in West Germany
The Possibilities of the Rhineland
Living the Nightlife
Kraftwerk : The Conceptualization of Pop Music
Beuys and the Band
Punk after Beuys
Walter Dahn : Between Generations
Markus Oehlen and Albert Oehlen : Style and Attitude
Michaela Melián : Yes to the Modern World
Kai Althoff : An Imaginary History of Simultaneity
A Daydream of Politics, Pop Music, and Art in Sync
Electronic Bodies : Synesthesia and Synchronicity, Cut-Ups, Interference, Super-Hybridity
The Dream of Technical Synchrony, the Reality of Interference
Brian Eno : Ambience and Conflict
Laurie Anderson : Only an Expert Can Deal with the Problem
Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle : Electronics and Body Cut-Ups
Carsten Nicolai : Combining and Separating
Fatima Al Qadiri : Gulf Futurism, Super-Hybridity
Conclusion
World Upside Down : Art and Pop Music from the Mid-1990s to the 2010s
Trading Places
Context Switching and Societal Change
Context Switching and the Power of Judgment
Bibliography
Discography
Image Credits
Index
About the Author.