Prologue: I want to take you higher
Introduction: Cleaning windows: Restlessness, records, and transcendence
Mystics: Contemplatives, Sensualists, and Empaths
Dwellers on the threshold: Van Morrison, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and P.M. Dawn
Sexual healing, or something like sanctified: Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Madonna, and PJ Harvey
My love I bring: Sinead O'Connor, Buddy and Julie Miller, and Moby
Naysayers: Dystopians and "idiots"
The great wrong place in which we live: Nine Inch Nails, Tricky, Joy Division, and New Order
License to ill: The Stooges, the Sex Pistols, PiL, and Eminem
Prophets: Voices of Uplift, Resistance, and Possibility
Keep on pushing: Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash, and U2
Fight the power: Spearhead, the Mekons, and Public Enemy
Dance to the music: Sly & the Family Stone, Bikini Kill, Liberation Rock, Sleater-Kinney, and Le Tigre
Epilogue: Hungry heart Bruce Springsteen.
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I'll take you there : pop music and the urge for transcendence by Bill Friskics-Warren. ISBN 9780826417008. Published by Continuum in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
