Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Theories of ecocriticism and popular music -- 1. Popular music and environmental ethics -- 1.1 Humanist Marxism: Ernst Bloch -- 1.2 Postmodern musicology: Susan McClary -- 1.3 Post-structuralism: Deleuze and Guattari -- 1.4 Critical realism and political ecology -- 1.5 Popular music and structural homology -- 2. Popular music and eco-aesthetics -- 2.1 Political modernism and popular music -- 2.2 Postmodern aesthetics and popular music -- 3. Popular music and 'nature' -- 3.1 Popular music, authenticity and ethical naturalism -- 3.2 American popular music and the pastoral mode -- 4. Eco-listening -- 4.1 Immersive listening and the deep ecological self -- 4.2 Rhythmical entrainment and New Age ecologism -- Part Two: Ecocriticism and American popular music since 1960 -- 5. Blues and country music -- 5.1 The blues and environmental ethics -- 5.2 Country music and rural authenticity -- 5.3 The farmer in country music -- 5.4 The cowboy in country music -- 5.5 Country music and wilderness conservation: John Denver -- 6. Folk 97 -- 6.1 The rise of environmental folk music: Pete Seeger -- 6.2 Folk music and environmental protest since the 1960s -- 6.3 Folk music and the 'American Primitive' -- 7. 1960s rock and R'n'B -- 7.1 Sixties rock music as electronic pastoral -- 7.2 Biocentrism in sixties rock music -- 7.3 Environmental apocalypse in sixties rock music -- 7.4 Anti-pastoral as dystopian satire: Frank Zappa -- 8. Country rock -- 8.1 Country rock and the return to 'roots' -- 8.2 Bob Dylan's nervous pastoral -- 9. Post-1960s rock, R'n'B and hip hop -- 9.1 Environmental protest in 1970s African-American R'n'B -- 9.2 Rock music and environmental protest since 1970 -- 9.3 Anti-naturalism in American punk rock -- 9.4 Indie rock: a return to 'nature'.

9.5 African-American hip hop and environmental protest -- 10. World music -- 10.1 World music and globalisation -- 10.2 Eastern music and environmental consciousness -- 11. Electronica -- 11.1 Popular music and environmental sound -- 11.2 Ambient electronica and the simulation of nature -- 11.3 Organicism and electronic dance music -- 12. Jazz -- 12.1 Jazz and ecological awareness -- 12.2 'Living Music': Paul Winter -- 12.3 'Earth Jazz': David Rothenberg -- 12.4 Jamming with nature -- Afterword -- Recordings cited -- Works cited -- Index.