Redefining Mainstream Popular Music

Contents

• Part 1 : Re-Appraising the Mainstream
• 1. Making Sense of the Mainstream
• 2. Queer Dissonances, Lesbian Music Cultures and Multiple Mainstreams
• Part 2 : Perceptions of the Mainstream
• 3. The Commercial Success of Grunge and the Contradictions of the Mainstream
• 4. Negotiating the Mainstream from Within: Young Girls' Understandings of Pop Music
• Part 3 : Historicising the Mainstream
• 5. Elvis goes Hollywood: Authenticity, Resistance, Commodification and the Mainstream
• 6. 'It Ain't Necessarily So': Gender, the Popular Music Mainstream and England in the 1960s
• 7. Historicizing the Mainstream of the Late 1960s: Don Kirshner, The Monkees, and the Archies
• Part 4 : Production, Aesthetics and the Mainstream
• 8. 'Sounds Like an Official Mix': The Mainstream Aesthetics of Amateur Remix Production
• 9. Jumping a Moving Gate: Local Conceptions of Overseas and Latent Technological Imperialism
• 10. The Clarity of Distance: Australian Independent Music in a Time of Digital Revolution
• Part 5 : The Mainstream and Vernacular Culture
• 11. Off the Beaten Track: Vernacular and Mainstream in New Zealand Tramping Club Singing
• 12. The 'Mainstream', Portable Music Devices and 'Public' and 'Private' Social Life
• 13. Cheesy Listening: Popular Music and Ironic Listening Practices