Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock `n' Roll.

After tracing the evolution of pop music, the book focuses on the roots of rock music and the everchanging components of the modern record making process. By analyzing both the possibilities and the limits of regulating leisure in a capitalist society, the article challenges the prevailing view that media conglomorates' efforts to channel and control their markets have succeeded in turning rock into another plastic readymade product. It is suggested that, in the end, the unpredictable and uncontrollable contradictions peculiar to rock music audiences, both resist and support the system and Other CABI sites 