The Politics of Post-9/11 Music: Sound, Trauma, and the Music Industry in the Time of Terror

Contents

• Contents: Foreword
• Introduction - greet death: post-9/11 music and the sound of decay, Joseph P. Fisher and Brian Flota
• Part I Electric Dreams: The Medium and the Message: Rock, enroll: music and militarization since 9/11, Samuel Dwinell
• Music, terrorism, response: the conditioning logic of code and networks, Benjamin J. Robertson
• Technostalgia and the resurgence of cassette culture, Craig Eley. Part II Hail to the Thief: Post-9/11 Experimental Music: Why protest albums can't teach dissent: the emergent complexity of post-9/11 protest, Conrad Amenta
• On a maddening loop: post-9/11 rubble music, Isaac Vayo
• Terrorism and the politics of improvisation, Rob Wallace
• Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero and the biopolitics of media convergence, Katheryn Wright. Part III What's Going On, Again?: Protest and Nostalgia: Casualties of war: Hip Hop and the old racial politics of the post-9/11 era, Aisha Staggers
• That was now, this is then: recycling 60s style in post-9/11 music, Jeffrey Roessner
• A new morning in Amerika: conservative politics and punk rock in the 2000s, Matthew Siblo
• 'Agony and irony': indie culture's sardonic response to America's post-9/11 devolution, S. Todd Atchison. Part IV Idle American, American Idol: Mainstream Media and Ideology: Post-Dixie Chicks country: Carrie Underwood and the negotiation of feminist cou
• Walking the great line: Underoath and Christian fundamentalism in punk rock after 9/11, Gerrit Roessler
• War is heavy metal: soundtracking the US war in Iraq, Steve Waksman
• Index.