The appeal of music: The imaginative mind and the role of listener / Aaron Copland -- Music as a safe haven / Melissa Etheridge -- Music as energy / Kurt Cobain -- Life in the 30's / Anna Quindlen -- Nas and his father Olu Dara : one son learns lessons from a father - / Touré

Out of tune : youth and morality: Music / Allan Bloom -- MTV and morality / John Hamerlinck -- Punk rock : the madness in my area / Paul Cobley -- Heavy metal under attack : suicide and aggression / Deena Weinstein -- Children, violence, and the media : a report for parents and policy makers / Senate Committee on the Judiciary (September 14, 1999) -- It's easy, but wrong, to blame the music / Hilary Rosen

Music and sexuality: Madona I : animality and artifice / Camille Paglia -- Disruptive divas--Courtney Love / M. LaFrance -- I am the king : phallus power / Simon Reynolds and Joy Press -- Glam and glitter rock : David Bowie--sexuality and gender typing / Dick Hebdige -- Dancing our way out of class through funk, techno, or rave / Beatrice Aaronson

Musicians and the challenges of navigating the racial terrain: The jazz impulse : James Brown, Miles Davis, and Jimi Hendrix / Craig Werner -- Gangsters--real and unreal / Nelson George -- The angry appeal of Eminem is cutting across racial lines / Lynette Holloway -- It's all about comin' up : Ice Cube as educator / Adam Krims -- Bad sistas--Queen Latifah / Tricia Rose.

Consumerism : the business of music: Did Stones sell their music short? / Timothy White -- Madison Ave. woos musicians / Carla Hay -- Here's reality : "Idol" feeds hopefuls to a shaky music business / Alessandra Stanley -- The heavenly jukebox / Charles C. Mann -- Recording industry begins suing P2P file sharers who illegally offer copyrighted music online / Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) -- Are we the world? : the influence of world music on American recording industry and consumers / Carol Cooper

Creativity, craft, and culture: Pop music : authenticity, creativity, and technology / Gavin Kendall -- The delight of words : the Elizabethan sonneteers and American country lyricists / Jill Tedford Jones -- Music and censorship / Victor Lombardi -- Better songs through censorship / Neil Strauss -- Where'd you get that? : the further evolution of sampling / Gail Mitchell -- Hip-hop divides : those who rap, those who don't / Kelefa Sanneh.

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