Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism Anger Is an Energy [Paperback]

The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music.

The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.PART ONE
No Respect for Suffering: An Introduction to Postmodernism
The Vicious History of Aesthetics
Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism on Mass Culture and<i> Ressentiment
Collaborating with the Oppressors
Postmodern Academics on Music
Kurt Cobain Died for Your Sins
Postmodernism in Music Journalism
PART TWO
Emotional Rescue
Feminist Philosophy on Anger
The Post-Postmodern Voice
Emotion and Writing about Music
The Riot Grrrls and Carnival