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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A Life-Changing Thing 1 I / Contextualizing Popular Music and Aging 1 / Popular Music and the Aging Audience 13 2 / Individual and Collective Lifestyles of Aging Popular Music Audiences 42 II / Case Studies 3 / Toning Down the Mohawk: Music, Style, and Aging 67 4 / Career Opportunities: Work, Leisure, and the Aging Popular Music Fan 94 5 / “This Is ‘Dad House’”: Continuity and Conflict among Multigenerational Music Audiences 123 6 / Still “Changing the World”? Music, Aging, and Politics 151 Conclusion: Too Old to Rock and Roll? 179 Appendix: A Note on Methodology 185 Bibliography 189 Index 203 ...

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