ABSTRACT
Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, metal and rap music, and case histories of specific movements like the Riot Grrls, funk clubbing in Rio de Janeiro, and the British rave scene.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |54 pages
Histories & Futures
part |76 pages
Locating Hip Hop
chapter |19 pages
A Style Nobody Can Deal With
Politics, Style and the Postindustrial City in Hip Hop
part |73 pages
The Dance Continuum
part |56 pages
Rock, Rituals & Rights
chapter |7 pages
Rah, Rah, Sis-Boom-Bah
The Secret Relationship between College Rock and the Communist Party