CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. 1 Scenes of Liveness and Deadness 28
6. 2 Sonic Maps of the Japanese Underground 64
7. 3 Listening to Noise in Kansai 92
8. 4 Genre Noise 117
9. 5. FEEDBACK, SUBJECTIVITY, AND PERFORMANCE 139
10. 6 Japanoise and Technoculture 169
11. 7 The Future of Cassette Culture 198
12. Epilogue: A Strange History 227
13. Notes 235
14. References 259
15. Index 279