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"politics" through "pop music" (excerpts from the index)

sugarhigh! will be posting excerpts from this book over the next several months. As a special feature today, we bring you a portion of the book's index

politics: of grunge, 87, 129, 139; of punk rock, 76–77, 79–80, 86, 87, 139, 155n6; of rap/hip-hop, 30–35, 36, 43, 128, 139; of rave culture, 54, 58, 65, 128–29, 134–35, 138–39. See also antagonism, sociopolitical; communism, collapse of; confrontation, sociopolitical; democracy; Fall of the Wall

“Polly” (Nirvana), 83, 85

Pop, Denniz, 102

pop music: Adorno on, 7, 94, 118; antagonistic discourse canceled in, 121, 131–32, 133, 136, 137, 138, 139; antagonistic discourse preserved in, 121, 138–39, 140; belles époques in, 92, 93, 97, 106, 108, 118, 119, 133, 158n38; and boundlessness, 95, 97, 105, 118, 120, 130; contemporaneous with Fall of the Wall, 3, 11–12, 18, 54, 91, 94, 106, 108–9, 113, 116; and dominant mode, 92, 101, 104; and emergent mode, 92, 93, 101, 130, 132; excess in, 97, 108; and gender, 95–97, 98, 103, 160n4; as groundless celebration, 132–35; historical change registered in, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 17–19, 20, 93–95, 109, 118, 127, 132, 135, 140; ideology of, 8, 20, 100, 118, 136, 138; metageneric status of, 92, 93, 108, 127, 130; musical structure of, 95, 104–5, 107; narrative in, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100–101, 121–22, 132, 136; and neutralization, 132–33; scholarly examination of, 97; Swedish, 102, 104; and teenpop, 17, 101–4, 106, 134; and timelessness, 7, 17, 93, 98, 100, 118, 119, 120, 130. See also charts, pop music; market relations, in pop music; videos, pop music

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