{"product_id":"rock-over-the-edge-9780822329152","title":"Rock Over the Edge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuitable 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Smart, provocative, contradictory, suggestive, irritating, inspiring, exhaustive, exhausting and over the top—\u003ci\u003eRock Over the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \/ Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, and Ben Saunders \u003cbr\u003e Discourses \/ Histories \u003cbr\u003e Reflections of a Disappointed Popular Music Scholar \/ Lawrence Grossberg \u003cbr\u003e Elvis Everywhere: Musicology and Popular Music Studies at the Twilight of the Canon \/ Robert Fink \u003cbr\u003e “Think about What You’re Trying to Do to Me”: Rock Historiography and the Construction of a Race-Based Dialectic \/ John J. Sheinbaum \u003cbr\u003e Hijacked Hits and Antic Authenticity: Cover Songs, Race, and Postwar Marketing \/ Michael Coyle \u003cbr\u003e New Spaces \/ New Maps \u003cbr\u003e Why Isn’t Country Music “Youth” Culture? \/ Trent Hill \u003cbr\u003e Just A Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth \/ Gayle Wald \u003cbr\u003e Satellite Rhythms: Channel V, Asian Music Videos, and Transnational Gender \/ Lisa Parks \u003cbr\u003e The “Feminization” of Rock \/ Tony Grajeda \u003cbr\u003e Rock’s \u003ci\u003eReconquista\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Josh Kun \u003cbr\u003e Desires Affects \u003cbr\u003e A Fan’s Notes: Identification, Desire, and the Haunted Sound Barrier \/ R. J. Warren Zanes \u003cbr\u003e Mourning Becomes . . .? Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, and the “Waning of Affect” \/ Roger Beebe \u003cbr\u003e D. C. Punk and the Production of Authenticity \/ Jason Middleton \u003cbr\u003e Queen Theory: Notes on the Pet Shop Boys \/ Ian Balfour \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406030020951,"sku":"9780822329152","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822329152.jpg?v=1730494301","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rock-over-the-edge-9780822329152","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}