Reading rock and roll
Subtitle: authenticity, appropriation, aesthetics
By: edited by Kevin J.H. Dettmar and William Richey ; with a foreword by Anthony DeCurtis
Contributors: Dettmar, Kevin J. H., 1958-; Richey, William, 1956-
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Rock music -- History and criticism; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Dancing about architecture / Anthony DeCurtis; title: Introduction / Kevin J.H. Dettmar and William Richey; title: Modeling authenticity, authenticating commercial models / Michael Coyle and Jon Dolan; title: Too much Mead? : under the influence (of participant-observation) / R.J. Warren Zanes; title: Fixing Madonna and Courtney : sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll reflux / Marilyn Manners; title: "Ask any girl" : compulsory heterosexuality and girl group culture / Patricia Juliana Smith; title: "Do Doc Martens have a special smell? : homocore, skinhead eroticism, and queer agency / Ashley Dawson; title: Dr. Funkenstein's supergroovalisticprosifunkstication : George Clinton signifies / Mark Willhardt and Joel Stein; title: "I have come out to play" : Jonathan Richman and the politics of the faux naïf / John Alberti; title: This is fascism? : raves and the politics of dancing / Sean Portnoy; title: The riot grrrls and "Carnival" / Neil Nehring; title: Time to heal, "desire" time : the cyberprophesy of U2's "Zoo world order" / Robyn Brothers; title: "Even better than the real thing" : U2's (love) songs of the self / Atara Stein; title: Elvis Costello as cultural icon and cultural critic / Pamela Thurschwell; title: Musical cheese : the appropriation of seventies music in nineties movies / Kevin J.H. Dettmar and William Richey