German and found English-speaking audiences just as receptive to their alt-rock music, moving lyrics, and

Country Music -- Twelve: Rough and Rowdy Ways: To the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- Thirteen: Sentiments

, intellectuals, drunken poets, and would-be rock stars. In this idyllic haven, narrator Bill Hansen, a drummer

hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over

whole-heartedly to anyone who would like fresh ideas about some of the most stimulating music of the rock era

Cults of Popular Music -- 8 God Is a DJ: Possession Trance Cults of Electronic Dance Music -- 9 Do You

-- Notes -- 11 - TARTAN COMICS AND COMIC TARTANRY -- Notes -- 12 - ROCK, POP AND TARTAN -- INTRODUCTION

-- Bruce Payne: News -- Reverend Marcus Butler: Gosel Music -- Gary's Meat House Ad -- Bruce Payne -- Beale

, lyrical music has earned him fans of all ages and persuasions. Novelist Kevin Chong counts himself among

Seventies Triumph in English-Canadian Rock Music -- Reelin' 'n' Rockin': Genre-Bending and Boundary-Crossing

, Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the

transnational identity in the Latino/a music industry and among its most renowned rock en español, pop, and