Contents -- Introduction: Subverrsion, Rock, Humor -- Subversive Rock Humor's Defining Features -- Youth Orientation -- Primal Emotions -- Id-iotic Outbursts -- Dumb Wit -- Subcultural -- Seekers and Trailblazers -- Three Chords and an Attitude -- Here and Now -- Jacks-of-All-Trades -- Artistic Debts and Futures -- Subversive Rock Humorists:Who? Where? When? Why? -- The Fifties: Evolution to Revolution -- From "Race" Music to R&B to Rock & Roll -- Chuck Berry -- Little Richard -- Bo Diddley -- White Boys Who Stole the Rhythm & Blues -- Jerry Lee Lewis -- Bawdy Women -- Big Mama Thornton -- Wanda Jackson -- Novelty Humor -- The Coasters -- THe Comic Craze and Other Visual Spectacles -- Screamin' Jay Hawkins -- The Days The Music Died -- The Sixties: Humor Grows Up . . . and Away -- Seriously Folk -- Bob Dylan -- Phil Ochs -- Girl Power -- The Shangri-Las -- Mid-Sixties Turning Points -- Country Joe & the Fish -- Bubblegum Pops Up -- The Rock Counter-Counterculture -- The Mothers of Invention -- The Fugs -- The Velvet Underground -- Retreats into the Future -- The Seventies: Radical Cynicism -- Lost in L.A. -- Warren Zevon -- Randy Newman -- Fight the Powers -- Gil Scott-Heron -- Wham Glam! -- Alice Cooper -- Proto-Punk Prototypes -- New York Dolls -- Modern Lovers -- THe CBGBs Scene: Bored in the U.S.A. -- The Ramones -- Talking Heads -- Out of the Ashes -- The Eighties: Postmodern Regenerations -- Hardcore -- Dead Kennedys -- Rap Breaks -- Ice T -- Beastie Boys -- Metal on Metal -- "Post"-Feminism -- Madonna -- Novelty Update -- "Weird Al" Yankovic -- This is Radio College -- X-Treme Humor -- Extreme Takeover -- The Nineties: Rock in Flux -- Slack Attacks -- Nirvana -- Beck -- The Years of the Woman -- Missy Elliott -- A Riot of Their Own -- Urban R(h)apsodieS -- Eminem -- Nightmares on Metal Street -- Marilyn Manson -- Pop Goes the Punk.

Roots Rerouted -- The Naughties:Post-Irony and Identity Humor -- Camping Out -- Rock On! -- Country's Crossroads -- Indie Intellectuals -- Back to the Future -- Notes -- INDEX.