This Is Pop Book

	Introduction : who'll write the book of love? Pop music and pop prose	1
1	"And I guess it doesn't matter any more" : European thoughts on American music	15
2	U.S. and them : are American pop (and semi-pop) still exceptional? And by the way, does that make them better?	26
3	How come jazz isn't dead?	39
4	Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the prehistory of "women in rock"	56
5	The birth of the blues	68
6	Richard speaks! Chasing a tune from the Chitlin Circuit to the Mormon Tabernacle	75
7	Interrupted symphony : a recollection of movie music from Max Steiner to Marvin Gaye	90
8	Burnt sugar : post-soul satire and rock memory	103
9	Bits of me scattered everywhere : Ray Davies and the Kinks	119
10	Authenticity, gender, and personal voice : she sounds so sad, do you think she really is?	145
11	All the memories money can buy : marketing authenticity and manufacturing authorship	155
12	Authorship meets downpression : translating the Wailers into rock	173
13	Creativity and band dynamics	187
14	"O secret stars stay secret" : rock and roll in contemporary poetry	200
15	Compressing pop : how your favorite song got squished	212
16	Rapping about rapping : the rise and fall of a hip-hop tradition	223
17	Bread and butter songs : unoriginality in pop	235
18	Good pop, bad pop : massiveness, materiality, and the top 40	245
19	The Carly Simon principle : sincerity and pop greatness	257
20	Groove as niche : Earth, Wind & Fire	266
21	Unpacking our hard drives : discophilia in the age of digital reproduction	279
22	Lost in music : obsessive record collecting	289
23	Topless at the Arco Arena : looking for the line between abandon and irresponsibility during the Dot-Com explosion	308
24	More rock, less talk : live music turns off the voices in our heads	318
25	The persistence of Hair	325
	Notes	337
	Contributors	365
	Acknowledgments	372
	Index	375