Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-330)

Understanding mega-events : if we are the world, then how do we change it? -- Melson Mandela, the concerts : mass culture as contested terrain -- popular music and the Civil Rights Movement / Reebee Garofalo -- Diverse rock rebellions subvert mass media hegemony / Neal Ullestad -- Rock against Racism and Red Wedge : from music to politics, from politics to music / Simon Frith and John Street -- The times they are a-changin' : rock music and political change in East Germany / Peter Wicke -- The politics of marginality : a rock musical subculture in socialist Hungary in the early 1980s / Anna Szemere -- Rock and roll on the new Long March ; popular music, cultural identity, and political opposition in the People's Republic of China / Tim Brace and Paul Friedlander -- All for freedom : the rise of patriotic/pro-democratic popular music in Hong Kong in response to the Chinese student movement / Joanna Ching-Yun Lee

(cont.) Desert dreams, media, and interventions in reality : Australian Aboriginal music / Marcus Breen -- Don' go down Waikiki : social protest and popular music in Hawaii / George H. Lewis -- Some anti-hegemonic aspects of African popular music / John Collins -- Music beyond Apartheid? / Denis-Constant Martin -- Rock nacional and dictatorship in Argentina / Pablo Vila -- Women's music : no longer a small private party / Cynthia M. Lont -- Reconstructions of Nationalist thought in Black music and culture / Kristal Brent Zook -- Chicano rock : cruising around the historical bloc / George Lipsitz