Living Through Pop

Contents

• Introduction what's the story?
• PART I Living in history 1 Loosen up: the Rolling Stones ring in the 1960s, 2 White light/white heat: jouissance beyond gender in the Velvet Underground
• PART II Living the business 3 I was there: putting punk on television 4 Making noise: notes from the 1980s
• PART III Getting to the present 5 Decoding Society versus the Popsicle Academy: on the value of being unpopular 6 Exploding silence: African-Caribbean and African-American music in British culture towards 2000 98, 7 Listening back from Blackburn: virtual
• PART IV Living through contemporary pop 8 Living in France: the parallel universe of Hexagonal pop 9 Thinking about mutation: genres in 1990s electronica, 10 'It's like feminism, but you don't have to burn your bra': girl power and the Spice Girls' break