'Every 1's a winner' : music as a cultural industry
'Pump up the volume' : music and technology
'I'm just a singer' : making music and the success continuum
'So you want to be a rock'n'roll star' : auteurs and stars
'Message understood'? : musical texts
'It's still rock'n'roll to me' : genres, covers and the canon
'Shop around' : retail, radio and the charts
'U got the look' : film, television and MTV
'On the cover of The Rolling Stone' : the music press
'My generation' : audiences, fans and collectors
'Sound of our town' : subcultures, sounds and scenes
'We are the world' : state music policy, globalization and national identity
'Pushin' too hard' : moral panics
'Revolution' : social change, conscience rock and identities.