Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Collapsing Distance: The Love- Song of the Wanna- Be, or The Fannish Auteur 7
5. Black Rockers vs. Blackies Who Rock, or The Difference between Race and Music 15
6. Toward an Ethics of Knowing Nothing 27
7. Divided Byline: How a Student of Leslie Fiedler and a Colleague of Charles Keil Became the Ghostwriter for Everybody from Ray Charles to Cornel West 40
8. Boring and Horrifying Whiteness: The Rise and Fall of Reaganism as Prefigured by the Career Arcs of Carpenters, Lawrence Welk, and the Beach Boys in 1973–74 47
9. Perfect Is Dead: Karen Carpenter, Theodor Adorno, and the Radio, or If Hooks Could Kill 62
10. Agents of Orange: Studio K and Cloud 9 82
11. Belliphonic Sounds and Indoctrinated Ears: The Dynamics of Military Listening in Wartime Iraq 111
12. Since the Flood: Scenes from the Fight for New Orleans Jazz Culture 145
13. (Over the) Rainbow Warrior: Israel Kamakawiwo’ole and Another Kind of Somewhere 176
14. Travel with Me: Country Music, Race, and Remembrance 185
15. The Comfort Zone: Shaping the Retro- Soul Audience 201
16. Within Limits: On the Greatness of Magic Slim 230
17. Urban Music in the Teenage Heartland 240
18. “Death to Racism and Punk Revisionism”: Alice Bag’s Vexing Voice and the Unspeakable Influence of Canción Ranchera on Hollywood Punk 247
19. Of Wolves and Vibrancy: A Brief Exploration of the Marriage Made in Hell between Folk Music, Dead Cultures, Myth, and Highly Technical Modern Extreme Metal 271
20. The New Market Affair: Media Pranks, the Music Industry’s Last Big Gold Rush, and the Hunt for Hits in the Shenandoah Valley 282
21. All That Is Solid Melts into Schmaltz: Poptimism vs. the Guilty Displeasure 299
22. Contributors 313
23. Index 317