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Anger Is An Energy .
Introduction, notes, index. Rock music is, at its heart, a music of passion, spontaneity, fire. But, according to Nehring, such dismissals of angry music stem more from a postmodernist contempt for genuine emotion than from an understanding of how pop music functions both for performers and listeners. To restore emotions such as anger to their rightful place in discussions of rock music, Nehring suggests the antidote lies in feminist philosophy. Nehring argues that postmodernism's bleak productivist tendencies make it a poor tool for studying pop music.