This book examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods. By using a series of case studies, this book mobilizes historical theory and methods to underline different expressions of alternative music functioning within a mainstream musical industry. Each chapter highlights a particular theory or method while simultaneously weaving it through a genre of music expressing a notion of alternativityan explicit positioning of ones expression outside and counter to the mainstream.Historical Theory and Methods through Popular Music seeks to fill a gap in current scholarship by offering a collection written specifically for the pedagogical and theoretical needs of those interested in the topic.

Daniel Robert McClure is Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Irvine, Chapman University, and California State University, Fullerton.

Kenneth L. Shonk, Jr. is Assistant Professor of World History and Social Studies Education at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

1. Introduction: Those are the new saints.- 2. 400 Years: Modernity, the Longue Durée, and Jamaican Music, 1600s-1980s.- 3.This Charming Man: Queer and Alternative Masculinities, 1970-1994.- 4.Will the Wolf Survive?: Chicana/o Identity and Punk Rock in Los Angeles, 1977-2000..-5. A Perfect New Loop: Hip-Hop, Deindustrialization, and the Post-Civil Rights Era, and Hip-Hop, 1973-2000.- 6. The Pride of History: Post-Punk and the Aesthetics of Postmodernity.- 7. WavelessMTV and the Quiet Feminism of the 1980s.- 8. HiraethThe Celtic Moment in 1980s Alternative Rock.- 9. Feels Blind: Counter-Hegemony in Alternative Rock during the Reagan/Thatcher Era.- 10. No Depression: The Nostalgia and Authenticity of Alternative Country.- 11. Conclusion.