Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- General Editors' Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface: Dissent within Dissent -- Introduction -- Countercultures and Popular Music -- Reappraising 'Counterculture' -- Part I Theorising Countercultures -- 1 Break on Through: The Counterculture and the Climax of American Modernism -- 2 The Banality of Degradation: Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground and the Trash Aesthetic -- 3 Were British Subcultures the Beginning of Multitude? -- Part II Utopias, Dystopias and the Apocalyptic -- 4 The Rock Counterculture from Modernist Utopianism to the Development of an Alternative Music Scene -- 5 'Helter Skelter' and Sixties Revisionism -- 6 Apocalyptic Music: Reflections on Countercultural Christian Influence -- 7 Nobody's Army: Contradictory Cultural Rhetoric in Woodstock and Gimme Shelter -- Part III Sonic Anarchy and Freaks -- 8 The Long Freak Out: Unfinished Music and Countercultural Madness in Avant-Garde Rock of the 1960s and 1970s -- 9 The Grateful Dead and Friedrich Nietzsche: Transformation in Music and Consciousness -- 10 Scream from the Heart: Yoko Ono's Rock and Roll Revolution -- 11 From Countercultures to Suburban Cultures: Frank Zappa after 1968 -- Part IV Countercultural Scenes - Music and Place -- 12 Countercultural Space Does Not Persist: Christiania and the Role of Music -- 13 A Border-Crossing Soundscape of Pop: The Auditory Traces of Subcultural Practices in 1960s Berlin -- 14 Music and Countercultures in Italy: The Neapolitan Scene -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Filmography -- Index.