Description
Book Synopsis
This collection of original essays develops new, intertextual approaches to thinking about rock music.
Table of Contents
1. Modeling Authenticity, Authenticating Commercial Models, by Michael Coyle and Jon Dolan 2. Too Much Mead? Under the Influence (of Participant-Observation), by R. J. Warren Zanes 3. Fixing Madonna and Courtney: Sex Drugs Rock 'n' Roll Reflux, by Marilyn Manners 4. "Ask Any Girl": Compulsory Heterosexuality and Girl Group Culture, by Patricia Juliana Smith 5. "Do Doc Martens Have a Special Smell?" Homocore, Skinhead Eroticism, and Queer Agency, by Ashley Dawson 6. Dr. Funkenstein's Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication: George Clinton Signifies, by Mark Willhardt and Joel Stein 7. "I Have Come Out to Play": Jonathan Richman and the Politics of the Faux Naf, by John Alberti 8. This Is Fascism? (Raves and the Politics of Dancing), by Sean Portnoy 9. The Riot Grrrls and "Carnival", by Neil Nehring 10. Time to Heal, "Desire" Time: The Cyberprophesy of U2's "Zoo World Order", by Robyn Brothers 11. "Even Better than the Real Thing": U2's (Love) Songs of the Self, by Atara Stein 12. Elvis Costello as Cultural Icon and Cultural Critic, by Pamela Thurschwell 13. Musical Cheese: The Appropriation of Seventies' Music in Nineties' Movies, by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and William Richey
