Table of Contents

Introduction: what’s the story? PART I Living in history 1 Loosen up: the Rolling Stones ring in the 1960s, 2 White light/white heat: jouissance beyond gender in the Velvet Underground PART II Living the business 3 I was there: putting punk on television 4 Making noise: notes from the 1980s PART III Getting to the present 5 Decoding Society versus the Popsicle Academy: on the value of being unpopular 6 Exploding silence: African-Caribbean and African-American music in British culture towards 2000 98, 7 Listening back from Blackburn: virtual sound worlds and the creation of temporary autonomy PART IV Living through contemporary pop 8 Living in France: the parallel universe of Hexagonal pop 9 Thinking about mutation: genres in 1990s electronica, 10 ‘It’s like feminism, but you don’t have to burn your bra’: girl power and the Spice Girls’ breakthrough, 1996–7

About the Author

Andrew Blake is Head of the School of Cultural Studies at King Alfred's College, Winchester.