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"Smart, provocative, contradictory, suggestive, irritating, inspiring, exhaustive, exhausting and over the top--"Rock Over the Edge" takes the imperative of its title seriously, though often with a welcome sense of humor. Anyone who cares about popular music will find much in here to react to--either by shouting out in affirmation, or hurling the damn thing against the wall."--Anthony DeCurtis, author of "Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters"
List of contents
Introduction / Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, and Ben Saunders
Discourses / Histories
Reflections of a Disappointed Popular Music Scholar / Lawrence Grossberg
Elvis Everywhere: Musicology and Popular Music Studies at the Twilight of the Canon / Robert Fink
“Think about What You’re Trying to Do to Me”: Rock Historiography and the Construction of a Race-Based Dialectic / John J. Sheinbaum
Hijacked Hits and Antic Authenticity: Cover Songs, Race, and Postwar Marketing / Michael Coyle
New Spaces / New Maps
Why Isn’t Country Music “Youth” Culture? / Trent Hill
Just A Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth / Gayle Wald
Satellite Rhythms: Channel V, Asian Music Videos, and Transnational Gender / Lisa Parks
The “Feminization” of Rock / Tony Grajeda
Rock’s
Reconquista / Josh Kun
Desires Affects
A Fan’s Notes: Identification, Desire, and the Haunted Sound Barrier / R. J. Warren Zanes
Mourning Becomes . . .? Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, and the “Waning of Affect” / Roger Beebe
D. C. Punk and the Production of Authenticity / Jason Middleton
Queen Theory: Notes on the Pet Shop Boys / Ian Balfour
Contributors
Index
About the author
Roger Beebe is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida.
Denise Fulbrook is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Duke University.
Ben Saunders is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon.
Summary
Suitable for scholars and students in popular music studies and American Studies as well as general readers interested in popular music, this book brings voices and perspectives to the study of popular-and particularly rock-music.
