Bad music [electronic resource] : the music we love to hate / edited by Chris Washburne and Maiken Derno.

What is bad music? / Simon Frith
White trash alchemies of the abject sublime : country as "bad" music / Aaron A. Fox
Pop music, racial imagination, and the sounds of cheese : notes on loser's lounge / Jason Lee Oakes
Bad world music / Timothy D. Taylor
Theorizing the musically abject / Elizabeth Tolbert
Does Kenny G play bad jazz? : a case study / Christopher Washburne
The flight from banality / James Koehne
The good, the bad, and the folk / Richard Carlin
Film, music, and the redemption of the mundane / Giorgio Biancorosso
A moment like this : American idol and narratives of meritocracy / Matthew Wheelock Stahl
Extreme noise terror : punk rock and the aesthetics of badness / Angela Rodel
Glitch, the beauty of malfunction / Torben Sangild
Glitches, bugs, and hisses : the degeneration of musical recordings and the contemporary musical work / Eliot Bates
Rock critics need bad music / Deena Weinstein
Much too loud and not loud enough : issues involving the reception of staged rock musicals / Elizabeth L. Wollman
Trivial music (Trivialmusik) : "preface" and "trivial music and aesthetic judgment" / Carl Dahlhaus ; translated by Ulrike Sailer ; introductory comments by Walter Frisch.