Whittling on dynamite: the difference Bert Williams makes / W.T. Lhamon, Jr. -- Searching for the blues : James McKune, collectors, and a different crossroads / Marybeth Hamilton -- Abie the Fishman : on masks, birthmarks, and hunchbacks / Josh Kun -- The Kingsmen and the cha-cha-chá / Ned Sublette -- Ghoulardi : lessons in mayhem from the first age of punk / David Thomas -- Magic moments, the ghost of folk-rock, and the ring of E major / David Brackett -- Mystery girl : the forgotten artistry of Bobbie Gentry / Holly George-Warren -- "Is that all there is?" and the uses of disenchantment / Franklin Bruno -- Ghetto brother power : the Bronx gangs, the Beatles, the Aguinaldo, and a pre-history of hip-hop / Benjamin Melendez, as told to Henry Chalfant and Jeff Chang -- Grand Funk live! staging rock in the age of the arena / Steve Waksman -- The sound of velvet melting : the power of "vibe" in the music of Roberta Flack / Jason King -- All roads lead to "Apache" / Michaelangelo Matos -- On punk rock and not being a girl / Lavinia Greenlaw -- The Buddy Holocaust story : a necromusicology / Eric Weisbard -- ORCH5, or the classical ghost in the hip-hop machine / Robert Fink -- White chocolate soul : Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor / Mark Anthony Neal -- Dancing, democracy, and kitsch : Poland's disco polo / Daphne Carr -- How to act like Darby Crash / Drew Daniel -- Death letters / Greil Marcus.