Roger Beebe is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida.Denise Fulbrook is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Duke University.Ben Saunders is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon.

• Introduction / Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, and Ben Saunders Discourses / Histories Reflections of a Disappointed Popular Music Scholar / Lawrence Grossberg Elvis Everywhere: Musicology and Popular Music Studies at the Twilight of the Canon / Robert Fink “Think about What You’re Trying to Do to Me”: Rock Historiography and the Construction of a Race-Based Dialectic / John J. Sheinbaum Hijacked Hits and Antic Authenticity: Cover Songs, Race, and Postwar Marketing / Michael Coyle New Spaces / New Maps Why Isn’t Country Music “Youth” Culture? / Trent Hill Just A Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth / Gayle Wald Satellite Rhythms: Channel V, Asian Music Videos, and Transnational Gender / Lisa Parks The “Feminization” of Rock / Tony Grajeda Rock’s Reconquista / Josh Kun Desires Affects A Fan’s Notes: Identification, Desire, and the Haunted Sound Barrier / R. J. Warren Zanes Mourning Becomes . . .? Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, and the “Waning of Affect” / Roger Beebe D. C. Punk and the Production of Authenticity / Jason Middleton Queen Theory: Notes on the Pet Shop Boys / Ian Balfour Contributors Index

“Smart, provocative, contradictory, suggestive, irritating, inspiring, exhaustive, exhausting and over the top-Rock Over the Edge takes the imperative of its title seriously, though often with a welcome sense of humor. Anyone who cares about popular music will find much in here to react to-either by shouting out in affirmation, or hurling the damn thing against the wall.”-Anthony DeCurtis, author of Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters “Well written and engaging, these essays combine high levels of scholarship with a much more intimate familiarity with popular musical culture than is common within popular music studies. The range of styles makes for a lively and even endearing collection.”-Will Straw, McGill University