Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music Book

Introduction   Eric Weisbard     1
Whittling on Dynamite: The Difference Bert Williams Makes   W. T. Lhamon, Jr.     7
Searching for the Blues: James McKune, Collectors, and a Different Crossroads   Marybeth Hamilton     26
Abie the Fishman: On Masks, Birthmarks, and Hunchbacks   Josh Kun     50
The Kingsmen and the Cha-Cha-Cha   Ned Sublette     69
Ghoulardi: Lessons in Mayhem from the First Age of Punk   David Thomas     95
Magic Moments, the Ghost of Folk-Rock, and the Ring of E Major   David Brackett     103
Mystery Girl: The Forgotten Artistry of Bobbie Gentry   Holly George-Warren     120
"Is That All There Is?" and the Uses of Disenchantment   Franklin Bruno     137
Ghetto Brother Power: The Bronx Gangs, the Beatles, the Aguinaldo, and a Pre-History of Hip-Hop   Benjamin Melendez   As Told To Henry Chalfant   Jeff Chang     150
Grand Funk Live! Staging Rock in the Age of the Arena   Steve Waksman     157
The Sound of Velvet Melting: The Power of "Vibe" in the Music of Roberta Flack   Jason King     172
All Roads Lead to "Apache"   Michaelangelo Matos     200
On Punk Rock and Not Being a Girl   Lavinia Greenlaw     210
The Buddy Holocaust Story: A Necromusicology   Eric Weisbard     219
ORCH5, or the Classical Ghost in the Hip-Hop Machine   Robert Fink     231
White Chocolate Soul: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor   Mark Anthony Neal     256
Dancing, Democracy, and Kitsch: Poland's Disco Polo   Daphne Carr     272
How to Act Like Darby Crash   Drew Daniel     286
Death Letters   Greil Marcus     296
Acknowledgments     307
Contributors     309
Index     313