Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Process and Pedagogy of Historical Theory; Alternativity; Pedagogy; Prelude to the Alternative: Thinking About Modernity, the Longue Durée, and Ontology; Chapter 2 "400 Years": Modernity, The Longue Durée, and Jamaican Music; Modernity, Babylon, and the Caribbean; Ska-Rock Steady-Reggae; After Roots Reggae: Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt; Chapter 3 "This Charming Man": Queer and Alternative Masculinities, 1970-1994; Chapter 4 "Will the Wolf Survive?": Punk Rock and Chicanao Identity in Los Angeles

Chapter 5 A Perfect New Loop: Hip-Hop, Deindustrialization, and the Post-Civil Rights Era, 1973-2000The African Diaspora, Technology, and the Remnants of Industrialism (a Longue Durée Remix); Post-Industrial Blackness and Mass Incarceration; Hip-Hop and Post-Industrialism; Chapter 6 "The Pride of History": Post-punk and the Aesthetics of Post-modernity; Path(s) to Post-modernity; Getting the Story Crooked: History and Post-modernity; Post-punk: Crooked Narratives, Irony, and Visceral Entertainment; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Waveless: MTV and the "Quiet" Feminism of the 1980s

Chapter 8 Hiraeth: The Celtic Moment in 1980s Alternative RockU2; Big Country; The Alarm; Chapter 9 "Feels Blind": Counter-Hegemony in Alternative Rock During the ReaganThatcher Era; Hegemony: From Gramsci to Lears to Williams; Political Alternativity; Economic (Infrastructure) Alternativity; Aesthetic Alternativity; The Alternative Conclusion; Chapter 10 "No Depression": The Nostalgia and Authenticity of Alternative Country; A Genre Born (Again); Nostalgia and Authenticity; The Longue Durée Re-Cycling of Alt-Country; The Alt-Country Moment

Picking through the Alternatives of American Country MusicAuthenticity-Concluded; Chapter 11 Conclusion; Index