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.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

part |54 pages

Histories & Futures

chapter |13 pages

We Know What Time It Is

Race, Class and Youth Culture in the Nineties

chapter |12 pages

Same As It Ever Was

Youth Culture and Music

chapter |18 pages

Is Anybody Listening? Does Anybody Care?

On ‘The State of Rock'

part |76 pages

Locating Hip Hop

chapter |19 pages

A Style Nobody Can Deal With

Politics, Style and the Postindustrial City in Hip Hop

chapter |10 pages

Puerto Rican And Proud, Boyee!

Rap, Roots and Amnesia

chapter |23 pages

The State of Rap

Time and Place in Hip Hop Nationalism

chapter |23 pages

Contracting Rap

An Interview with Carmen Ashhurst-Watson

part |73 pages

The Dance Continuum

chapter |12 pages

In the Empire of the Beat

Discipline and Disco

chapter |2 pages

Hello

chapter |13 pages

Nobody Wants a Part-Time Mother

An Interview with Willi Ninja

part |56 pages

Rock, Rituals & Rights

chapter |7 pages

Rah, Rah, Sis-Boom-Bah

The Secret Relationship between College Rock and the Communist Party

chapter |25 pages

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Riot Grrrls, Revolution and Women in Independent Rock