On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word

Contents

• Preface PART ONE • GROUNDWORKS Listening to Popular Music
• The Dialogue of Courtship in Popular Song
• The Young Audience
• PART TWO • FROM SUBCULTURAL TO CULTURAL STUDIES The Golden Age
• Style as Homology and Signifying Practice
• Settling Accounts with Subcultures: A Feminist Critique
• Defending Ski-Jumpers: A Critique of Theories of Youth Subcultures
• Characterizing Rock Music Culture: The Case of Heavy Metal
• Is There Rock After Punk? PART THREE • THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems
• Cycles in Symbol Production: The Case of Popular Music
• Patterns of Change PART FOUR • THE CREATIVE PROCESS The Production of Success: An Antimusicology of the Pop Song
• From Craft to Art: The Case of Sound Mixers and Popular Music
• The Realities of Practice
• How Women Become Musicians
• Sample and Hold: Pop Music in the Digital Age of Reproduction PART FIVE • MUSICOLOGY AND SEMIOTICS Start Making Sense! Musicology Wrestles with Rock
• The Grain of the Voice
• On Popular Music
• Second Thoughts on a Rock Aesthetic: The Band
• Jingle: Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot
• Listen to Me
• Do-Talk and Don’t-Talk: The Division of the Subject in Girl-Group Music PART SIX • MUSIC AND SEXUALITY Rock and Sexuality
• Sexing Elvis
• Teenage Dreams
• In Defense of Disco
• Afterthoughts PART SEVEN • READING THE STARS Rock Music, the Star System, and the Rise of Consumerism
• Rocket to Russia
• In Praise of Kate Bush
• New Pop and Its Aftermath
• Corrupting the Absolute PART EIGHT • LAST WORDS: THE FANS SPEAK Starlust