CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT?
Nirvana, Leadbelly, and the Allure of the Primeval
New York, November 18, 1993
CHAPTER 2
NOBODY’S DIRTY BUSINESS
Folk, Blues, and the Segregation of Southern Music
Memphis, February 14, 1928
CHAPTER 3
T.B. BLUES
The Story of Autobiographical Song
San Antonio, January 31, 1931
CHAPTER 4
HEARTBREAK HOTEL
The Art and Artifice of Elvis Presley
Nashville, January 10, 1956
CHAPTER 5
SUGAR SUGAR
Faking It in the Age of Singer-Songwriters
Los Angeles, January 1967
CHAPTER 6
TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT
Neil Young and Being “More Real”
Los Angeles, August 26, 1973
CHAPTER 7
LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY
Disco and the Mechanization of Music
Munich, September 1975
CHAPTER 8
PUBLIC IMAGE
Punk’s Paradoxes of Authenticity
London, October 1978
CHAPTER 9
¿Y TÚ, QUÉ HAS HECHO?
The Re-creation of Cultural Authenticity
Havana, March 1996
CHAPTER 10
PLAY
Moby, the KLF, and the Ongoing Quest for Authenticity
New York, 1998
SOURCES
INDEX