Cover -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: White boys ... -- Contextualising indie -- John Lennon was my father -- Feminism and men -- Gender and writing on indie rock -- An overview -- 1 Reviewing theories and representations of masculinities -- Straw men -- Ethnographic and subcultural studies of rock -- Gender and psychology -- Masculinity and the Frankfurt School -- Gender and social construction -- Subjective realities -- Men's groups -- Conclusions -- 2 Powerless power: masculine intellectualism and aesthetics -- Classical discourse -- Classical music and masculinity -- Rock aesthetics - folk and black culture -- Rock and high art -- Art rock -- Art rock and camp -- I'll be your mirror - The Velvet Underground -- White hole -- Punk -- Punk and ethnicity -- Psychedelia and ego death -- Conclusions -- 3 What does it mean to be alternative? Indie guitar rock as a genre -- Local scenes and global genres -- Indie and the mainstream -- Indie pop -- Splitting and purity -- Genre description -- Production (commercial and juridical aspects) -- Formal and technical aspects - aural characteristics, instrumentation, rhythmic and melodic rules, studio sound, balance of mix elements -- Semiotic aspects - musical expressivity, lyrics, intertextuality, degrees of intimacy and distance -- Behavioural aspects - performance, packaging -- Social and ideological aspects - the social image of the musician and audience -- Conclusions -- 4 The singer or the song? Homosociality, genre and gender -- Southern California hardcore -- Straight edge -- UK indie and homosociality -- Kinship and the male gaze -- Women in indie bands -- Dinosaur Jr. - you're living all over me -- Some masculine coping strategies - R.E.M. and The Smiths -- Conclusions -- 5 'Someone controls electric guitar': indie and technologies.

Ironic amateurism, technological infantilism -- Indie and technology -- Representations of indie masculinities in sound -- The electric guitar in punk/indie -- Timeless flight - The Byrds -- Archivalism and canonism -- Conclusions -- 6 What will I do if she dies? Music, misery and white masculinities -- Feminism -- The suffering artist -- Nostalgia, the 1960s and infantilism -- The sadistic intellectual (the auteur) -- Masculine splitting and schizophrenia - broader theories -- Remedies -- Grunge, Nirvana and the postmodern subject -- Morrissey, Warhol and narcissism -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: … white noise -- And what of my own practice as a musician? -- Bibliography -- Books and articles -- Discography -- Films and TV -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.