| Contents |
Introduction : all this useless beauty / Greil Marcus -- Lost in the supermarket: myth and commerce in the music business / Anthony DeCurtis -- Thinking with music / Angela McRobbie -- Concealing the hunger / Jon Langford -- Art versus commerce: deconstructing a (useful) romantic illusion / Deena Weinstein -- Re: creation / Evelyn McDonnell -- Bela Lugosi's dead and I don't feel so good either: goth and the glorification of suffering in rock music / James Hannaham -- MTV killed the music video star / Katherine Dieckmann -- Same as it ever was? rock culture. Same as it ever was! rock theory. / Lawrence Grossberg -- On not playing dead / Kathleen Hanna -- Cinderella at the headbanger's ball / Chuck Eddy -- The sound of the crowd / Jon Savage -- Crowds and freedom / Ellen Willis -- Dark carnival / Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky that subliminal kid) -- Love only knows / Dave Hickey -- I'll have to say I love you in a song / Ann Powers -- Freedom songs, love songs / Toshi Reagon -- Ecstasy is a science: techno-romanticism / Simon Reynolds -- Between a hard rock and a velvet Elvis: fatal attractions in rock iconography / Ralph Rugoff -- Rock against romance: gender, rock 'n' roll, and resistance / Arlene Stein -- Keeping time / Karen Kelly -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum: myth, memory, and history / Robert Santelli -- Across the great divide: rock critics, rock women / Barbara O'Dair -- Music for gangsters and (other) chameleons / Jessica Hagedorn -- Analogues of mourning, mourning the analog / Paul Gilroy. |
| Abstract |
This volume assembles scholars, music writers, industry workers, and musicians, who offer a range of opinions and experience of the nature of fame. The collection focuses on commerce, the crowd, performance and image, history and memory, and romance. Contributors discuss black women icons, love-songs, the legacy of the blues, the image of the tortured rock star, MTV, the politics of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the joy of line-dancing, and more. The contributors are James Bernard, Anthony DeCurtis, Katherine Dieckmann, Chuck Eddy, Paul Gilroy, Daniel Glass, Lawrence Grossberg, Jessica Hagedorn, Kathleen Hanna, James Hannaham, Dave Hickey, Jon Langford, Greil Marcus, Angela McRobbie, Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky), Barbara O'Dair, Ann Powers, Toshi Reagon, Simon Reynolds, Robert Santelli, Jon Savage, Danyel Smith, Arlene Stein, Deena Weinstein, and Ellen Willis. |
