Author's Note/Acknowledgements; Prologue: I Want to Take You Higher; Chapter 1; Cleaning Windows: Restlessness, Records and Transcendence; Part One: Mystics: Contemplatives, Sensualists and Empaths; Chapter 2; Dwellers on the Threshold: Van Morrison, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and P.M.; Dawn; Chapter 3; Sexual Healing, or Something Like Sanctified: Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Polly; Jean Harvey and Madonna; Chapter 4; My Love I Bring: Sinead O'Connor, Buddy & Julie Miller and Moby; Part Two: Naysayers: Dystopians and "Idiots"; Chapter 5; The Great Wrong Place in Which We Live: Nine Inch Nails, Tricky, Joy; Division and New Order; Chapter 6; License to Ill: The Stooges, the Sex Pistols and Eminem; Part Three: Prophets: Voices of Uplift, Resistance and Possibility; Chapter 7; Keep On Pushing: Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash and U2; Chapter 8; Fight the Power: Spearhead, the Mekons and Public Enemy; Chapter 9; Dance to the Music: Sly & the Family Stone, Riot Grrl, Sleater-Kinney and Bruce Springsteen; Epilogue: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For; Discography and notes; Index.
Bill Friskics-Warren was lecturer in Church and Society at Vanderbilt University. He as written about popular music for the New York Times, Newsday, the Washington Post, the Nashville Scene, No Depression, the Oxford American and Rock & Rap Confidential, among other publications.
"Mr. Friskics-Warren is a metaphysical guy. And to murder a charming phrase attributed to Will Rogers, I never met a metaphysical guy I didn't like. The author tells us how moving to Nashville in the 1980s provoked an understanding of his lifelong quest to document "the urge for some sort of transcendence" in pop music. For those grounded in rhythm and chords, this may be a little ephemeral to grasp, but the author makes a game go at explaining his thoughts in eight well-written chapters."- Tim Fabrizio, "ARSC Journal, "Spring 2007 Vol. 38 No. 1--Sanford Lakoff
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