"Few books on popular music treat their subject so comprehensively, with thoughtful attention to ideology, history, and verbal and musical rhetoric. Miyakawa s approach is at once comprehensive and streamlined, making for an especially effective presentation of the issues as well as a good read." Albin Zak, author of The Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks, Making Records

"Miyakaya provides a great deal of information and analysis that is impossible to come by elsewhere. A sterling example of culturally-engaged musicology, her book is also a significant contribution to American history."...