In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The “Stranger Relations” of Beat 1 1. Hemispheric Beats (in the Bay Area and Beyond) 22 2. On the Crisis of the Underground and a Politics of Intractable Plurality 50 3. Unsettling the Democratic Score: Music and Urban Insurgency 69 4. Beat Publics and the “Middle-Aged” Left 98 5. (Back) Toward a Stranger Democracy 120 Coda: A New Imaginary . . . ? 150 Notes 161 Bibliography 179 Index 187 ...

Share