Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.
The brief life and protracted death of rock & roll -- A chip on his shoulder, and an H-bomb in his pants : American nervousness about rock & roll -- Death in the fourth estate -- The death of rock is the story of rock : or, the pen is mightier than the power chord -- Dancing on its own grave : the strange logics of the "rock is dead" song -- Rock is dead : long live rock