WINNER OF THE RALPH J. GLEASON AWARD INCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY
MARR Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of …

Why, despite the number of high profile female rock musicians, does rock continue to be
understood as masculine? Why is rock generally assumed to be created and performed by …

In December 2006, Nas released his eighth album, Hip Hop is Dead. The Queens rapper's
provocative album title caused controversy among rap artists and listeners, and led to …

This thesis is an examination of industrial, ideological and aesthetic practice amongst small-
scale cultural producers 4 whose activities are centred around a distinct set of rock and pop …

To evaluate the approximate level of aesthetic consensus among a large sample of
professionals, modern music critics were sampled from known music rating books that rated …

This dissertation posits and demonstrates a framework for analyzing how sound recordings
convey meaning in rock—considering how listeners experience recordings, not only as fixed …

In 2000, Dynamite Hack, a white indie‐rock band, covered NWA's “Boyz‐N‐The‐Hood.”
Hack's cover complicates earlier assertions that rap songs cannot be covered, and it speaks …

We investigated the justifications given by nonexperts and experts for their appraisals of
musicians and films. In Study 1, a sample of 125 participants were asked to justify positive …

All the different kinds of regional rock in America are really only one music, fragmented—the
artistic product of a postwar suburban culture that could be, and is, anywhere. The regional …