Description
Book SynopsisSuitable for scholars and students in popular music studies and American Studies as well as general readers interested in popular music, this book brings voices and perspectives to the study of popular-and particularly rock-music.
Trade Review“Smart, provocative, contradictory, suggestive, irritating, inspiring, exhaustive, exhausting and over the top—
Rock Over the Edge takes the imperative of its title seriously, though often with a welcome sense of humor. Anyone who cares about popular music will find much in here to react to—either by shouting out in affirmation, or hurling the damn thing against the wall.”—Anthony DeCurtis, author of
Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters“Well written and engaging, these essays combine high levels of scholarship with a much more intimate familiarity with popular musical culture than is common within popular music studies. The range of styles makes for a lively and even endearing collection.”—Will Straw, McGill University
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, and Ben Saunders
Discourses / Histories
Reflections of a Disappointed Popular Music Scholar / Lawrence Grossberg
Elvis Everywhere: Musicology and Popular Music Studies at the Twilight of the Canon / Robert Fink
“Think about What You’re Trying to Do to Me”: Rock Historiography and the Construction of a Race-Based Dialectic / John J. Sheinbaum
Hijacked Hits and Antic Authenticity: Cover Songs, Race, and Postwar Marketing / Michael Coyle
New Spaces / New Maps
Why Isn’t Country Music “Youth” Culture? / Trent Hill
Just A Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth / Gayle Wald
Satellite Rhythms: Channel V, Asian Music Videos, and Transnational Gender / Lisa Parks
The “Feminization” of Rock / Tony Grajeda
Rock’s
Reconquista / Josh Kun
Desires Affects
A Fan’s Notes: Identification, Desire, and the Haunted Sound Barrier / R. J. Warren Zanes
Mourning Becomes . . .? Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, and the “Waning of Affect” / Roger Beebe
D. C. Punk and the Production of Authenticity / Jason Middleton
Queen Theory: Notes on the Pet Shop Boys / Ian Balfour
Contributors
Index
