What is bad music? / Simon Frith -- White trash alchemies of the abject sublime : country as "bad" music / Aaron A. Fox -- Pop music, racial imagination, and the sounds of cheese : notes on loser's lounge / Jason Lee Oakes -- Bad world music / Timothy D. Taylor -- Theorizing the musically abject / Elizabeth Tolbert -- Does Kenny G play bad jazz? : a case study / Christopher Washburne -- The flight from banality / James Koehne -- The good, the bad, and the folk / Richard Carlin -- Film, music, and the redemption of the mundane / Giorgio Biancorosso -- A moment like this : American idol and narratives of meritocracy / Matthew Wheelock Stahl -- Extreme noise terror : punk rock and the aesthetics of badness / Angela Rodel -- Glitch, the beauty of malfunction / Torben Sangild -- Glitches, bugs, and hisses : the degeneration of musical recordings and the contemporary musical work / Eliot Bates -- Rock critics need bad music / Deena Weinstein -- Much too loud and not loud enough : issues involving the reception of staged rock musicals / Elizabeth L. Wollman -- Trivial music (Trivialmusik) : "preface" and "trivial music and aesthetic judgment" / Carl Dahlhaus ; translated by Uli Sailer ; introductory comments by Walter Frisch