Historical Theory and Methods through Popular Music, 1970–2000

Daniel Robert McClure is Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Irvine, Chapman University, and California State University, Fullerton.Kenneth L. Shonk, Jr. is Assistant Professor of World History and Social Studies Education at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

• 1. Introduction: Those are the new saints.- 2. “‘400 Years’: Modernity, the Longue Durée, and Jamaican Music, 1600s-1980s”.- 3.“This Charming Man: Queer and Alternative Masculinities, 1970-1994”.- 4.“Will the Wolf Survive?”: Chicana/o Identity and Punk Rock in Los Angeles, 1977-2000.”.-5. “A Perfect New Loop: Hip-Hop, Deindustrialization, and the Post-Civil Rights Era, and Hip-Hop, 1973-2000”.- 6. “The Pride of History”: Post-Punk and the Aesthetics of Postmodernity.- 7. “Waveless—MTV and the ‘Quiet’ Feminism of the 1980s”.- 8. “Hiraeth—The Celtic Moment in 1980s Alternative Rock”.- 9. “Feels Blind: Counter-Hegemony in Alternative Rock during the Reagan/Thatcher Era”.- 10. “No Depression: The Nostalgia and Authenticity of Alternative Country”.- 11. Conclusion.