Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Dancing about architecture / Anthony DeCurtis -- Introduction / Kevin J.H. Dettmar and William Richey -- Modeling authenticity, authenticating commercial models / Michael Coyle and Jon Dolan -- Too much Mead? : under the influence (of participant-observation) / R.J. Warren Zanes -- Fixing Madonna and Courtney : sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll reflux / Marilyn Manners -- "Ask any girl" : compulsory heterosexuality and girl group culture / Patricia Juliana Smith -- "Do Doc Martens have a special smell? : homocore, skinhead eroticism, and queer agency / Ashley Dawson -- Dr. Funkenstein's supergroovalisticprosifunkstication : George Clinton signifies / Mark Willhardt and Joel Stein -- "I have come out to play" : Jonathan Richman and the politics of the faux naïf / John Alberti -- This is fascism? : raves and the politics of dancing / Sean Portnoy -- The riot grrrls and "Carnival" / Neil Nehring -- Time to heal, "desire" time : the cyberprophesy of U2's "Zoo world order" / Robyn Brothers -- "Even better than the real thing" : U2's (love) songs of the self / Atara Stein -- Elvis Costello as cultural icon and cultural critic / Pamela Thurschwell -- Musical cheese : the appropriation of seventies music in nineties movies / Kevin J.H. Dettmar and William Richey.