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This book looks at how American rap/metal has engaged with America's defining role in the world after the Cold War. It offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture and introduces a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of negativity and expenditure

COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE -- PREFACE -- Introduction: Fear of music -- PART I AMUSIA -- INTERLUDE 1 Music and the love of the master -- CHAPTER ONE The Marriage of Figaro and Freudian melophobia -- CHAPTER TWO Dance and "condansation": Che Guevara's a-rhythmia -- INTERLUDE 2 Groundhog Day: the earworm and the love song -- CHAPTER THREE From symptom to synthomy -- CHAPTER FOUR The audio unconscious -- INTERLUDE 3 Hank Williams's cough -- CHAPTER FIVE From speaking beings to Talking Heads -- PART II THE MADNESS OF ECONOMIC REALISM -- CHAPTER SIX Primal scream: dissonance and repetition -- CHAPTER SEVEN Capitalism and psychosis I: the Nash equilibrium -- INTERLUDE 4 Michel Foucault and the beauty of the absolute -- CHAPTER EIGHT Bach's Little Fugue -- CHAPTER NINE Decomposing the voice -- INTERLUDE 5 American Psycho and Phil Collins -- CHAPTER TEN The Ride of the Valkyries -- PART III SCREAMADELICA -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Flower of hate: the lack in The Beatles -- CHAPTER TWELVE The murder of John Lennon -- INTERLUDE 6 Echo -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Unlistenable -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The braindance of the hikikomori -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The three delusions -- CODA The hum -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Over the last two decades, international actors have sought to diffuse repertoires of contentious practices, including rights-based litigation, to China. Multilateral organizations, foundations, and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have used funding and training programs conducted in China and at law schools abroad in order to raise the capacity of Chinese attorneys, NGOs, judges, and legal officials to improve rule of law and protection of human rights. In particular, international actors have worked with Chinese NGOs and state officials to found legal aid centers that provide information and advocacy to protect the rights of pollution victims and AIDS carriers. Legal aid centers, attorneys, and their financial backers seek to bring forward 'impact litigation' cases in the courts to establish model decisions for other plaintiffs, attorneys, and judges to follow. To date, environmental groups have enjoyed more success gaining access to the courts and in receiving favorable court judgments than have AIDS groups. In many cases involving AIDS victims, attorneys and legal aid centers seek compensation through alternative dispute resolution methods rather than litigation, which do not establish a legal precedent. This paper explores the reasons for the divergent outcomes of efforts to protect the rights of pollution victims and AIDS carriers in the courts. Primarily, the institutional particularities and contexts of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Public Health have allowed international legal norms related to the environment to take deeper root than those related to AIDS. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

Since 1978, China has opened itself, not just to the global economy, but also to social movements and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in global civil society. Scholarship on Chinese NGOs and civil society has reflected these developments, contrasting the state's early attempts to eradicate and control civil society organizations with more recent acceptance of, and even reliance on, the NGO sector. Two factors - linkages between Chinese NGOs and international actors and online communications - have propelled Chinese civil society development. Yet, Chinese civil society remains uneven across geographic and issue areas. This introduction examines the opportunity structures presented to Chinese NGOs by international and online linkages, as well as introduces the articles collected in this special section (in two parts). (J Contemp China/GIGA)