Bad music : the music we love to hate /
edited by Chris Washburne and Maiken Derno.
- p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Introduction / What is bad music? / White trash alchemies of the abject sublime : country as "bad" music / Pop music, racial imagination, and the sounds of cheese : notes on Loser's Lounge / Bad world music / Theorizing the musically abject / Does Kenny G play bad jazz? : a case study / The flight from banality / The good, the bad, and the folk / Film, music, and the redemption of the mundane / A moment like this : American Idol and narratives of meritocracy / Extreme noise terror : punk rock and the aesthetics of badness / Glitch - the beauty of malfunction / Glitches, bugs, and hisses : the degeneration of musical recordings and the contemporary musical work / Rock critics need bad music / Much too loud and not loud enough : issues involving the reception of staged rock musicals / Trivial music (trivialmusik) : "Preface" and "Trivial music and aesthetic judgment" / Introductory comments / Christopher Washburne and Maiken Derno -- Simon Frith -- Aaron A. Fox -- Jason Lee Oakes -- Timothy D. Taylor -- Elizabeth Tolbert -- Christopher Washburne -- James Koehne -- Richard Carlin -- Giorgio Biancorosso -- Matthew Wheelock Stahl -- Angela Rodel -- Torben Sangild -- Eliot Bates -- Deena Weinstein -- Elizabeth L. Wollman -- Carl Dahlhaus -- Walter Frisch. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.