| Introduction | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | Music as sound, music as text | |
| Introduction to part one | 11 |
| 1 | In the groove or blowing your mind? : the pleasures of musical repetition | 15 |
| 2 | This is not a story my people tell : musical time and space according to Laurie Anderson | 21 |
| 3 | 'Home is living like a man on the run' : John Cale's Welsh Atlantic | 29 |
| 4 | Family values in music? : Billie Holiday's and Bing Crosby's 'I'll be seeing you' | 36 |
| 5 | Subjectivity and soundscape, motorbikes and music | 44 |
| Pt. 2 | Making music | |
| Introduction to part two | 53 |
| 6 | Little girl blue | 57 |
| 7 | Black sound, black body : Jimi Hendrix, the electric guitar, and the meanings of blackness | 64 |
| 8 | Making up and showing off : what musicians do | 71 |
| 9 | War in the jungle | 78 |
| 10 | Liveness : performance and the anxiety of simulation | 85 |
| Pt. 3 | Subcultures, scenes and tribes | |
| Introduction to part three | 95 |
| 11 | Understanding hipness : 'subcultural capital' as feminist tool | 99 |
| 12 | Subcultures or neotribes? : rethinking the relationship between youth, style and musical taste | 106 |
| 13 | Punk rock at Raul's : the performance of contradiction | 114 |
| 14 | Rules of rebellion : slamdancing, moshing and the American alternative scene | 121 |
| 15 | 'Roots'? : the relationship between the global and the local within the extreme metal scene | 128 |
| Pt. 4 | Popular music and everyday life | |
| Introduction to part four | 137 |
| 16 | Music and self-identity | 141 |
| 17 | Filmic cities : the aesthetic experience of the personal-stereo user | 148 |
| 18 | 'Beautiful music' : the rise of easy-listening FM | 156 |
| 19 | Scanning : Aether talk | 164 |
| Pt. 5 | Musical diasporas | |
| Introduction to part five | 175 |
| 20 | "'Jewels brought from bondage' : black music and the politics of authenticity" | 179 |
| 21 | Zouk and the Isles of the Caribees | 187 |
| 22 | The local and global in North African popular music | 194 |
| 23 | Asian kool? : Bhangra and beyond | 201 |
| 24 | Technobanda and the politics of identity | 208 |
| 25 | Voices from the margins : rap music and contemporary cultural production | 216 |
| Pt. 6 | Music industry | |
| Introduction to part six | 227 |
| 26 | The industrialization of music | 231 |
| 27 | Musicians in Hollywood : work and technological change in entertainment industries, 1926-1940 | 239 |
| 28 | The British dance music industry : a case study of independent cultural production | 246 |
| 29 | Profiting from creativity? : the music industry in Stockholm, Sweden and Kingston, Jamaica | 253 |
| Pt. 7 | Popular music and technology | |
| Introduction to part seven | 265 |
| 30 | The material heterogeneity of recorded sound | 269 |
| 31 | Rationalization and democratization in the new technologies of popular music | 276 |
| 32 | Music/technology/practice : musical knowledge in action | 283 |
| 33 | Futurhythmachine : (an interview with Kodwo Eshun) | 292 |
| 34 | Home on the page : a virtual place of music community | 295 |
| Pt. 8 | Popular music media | |
| Introduction to part eight | 305 |
| 35 | Commercial radio and popular music : processes of selection and factors of influence | 309 |
| 36 | 'Yo Quiero Mi MTV!' : making music television for Latin America | 317 |
| 37 | Popular songs and comic allusion in contemporary cinema | 326 |
| 38 | Anglo-American music journalism : texts and contexts | 333 |
| Pt. 9 | Popular music, gender and sexuality | |
| Introduction to part nine | 343 |
| 39 | Women making music : some material constraints | 347 |
| 40 | Smells like teen spirit : riot grrrls, revolution, and women in independent rock | 355 |
| 41 | Rethinking issues of gender and sexuality in Led Zeppelin : a woman's view of pleasure and power in hard rock | 362 |
| 42 | Women and the early British rave scene | 370 |
| 43 | Housewives' choice : female fans and unmanly men | 377 |
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