[ch. 1.] Introduction : subversion, rock, humor
Subversive rock humor's defining features
Three chords and an attitude
Artistic debts and futures
Subversive rock humorists : Who? Where? When? Why?
[ch. 2.] The fifties : evolution to revolution
From "race" music to R & B to rock & roll
White boys who stole the rhythm & blues
The comic craze and other visual spectacles
[ch. 3.] The sixties : humor grows up ... and away
Mid-sixties turning points
The rock counter-counterculture
[ch. 4.] The seventies : radical cynicism
The CBGBs scene : bored in the U.S.A.
[ch. 5.] The eighties : postmodern regenerations
[ch. 6.] The nineties : rock in flux
Nightmares on metal street
[ch. 7.] The naughties : post-irony and identity humor
