Books by Theodore Gracyk

It's long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? Written by an award-winning popular music scholar, this book argues that aesthetic value is just as important in popular listening as it is with ""serious"" music.

Grapples with the ways that rock shapes - limits and expands - our notions of who we can be in the world. Going to the heart of this relationship between the music's role in its performers' and fans' self-construction, this title probes questions of gender and appropriation.