Ken McLeod is an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on identity politics in popular music, and the intersections between technology, science fiction, and rock music. His first book, We Are The Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music (Ashgate, 2011), examines the interconnection of sport and popular music in constructing racial, gender, socio-economic, and national identities.

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• Introduction: Revving Up1 "Come Away With Me, Lucille": A Brief History of Popular Song and Automobiles2 "No Particular Place to Go": Cars, Music, and African American Identity3 "Gotta Feel for My Automobile": Cars, Music, Gender, and Sexuality 4 If This Brand Were a Band: Sound and Music in Automotive Branding5 The Sound of Cars as Musical Objects: Tuning, Engine Sound Enhancement, and the Quest for Quiet6 Sound Systems, Sonic Performance, and the Car as Instrument of Identity7 Spare Parts: Cars and Soundtracks, Spiritual Connections, Location, and Theoretical Musings Conclusion: Shut DownBibliographyIndex

Ken McLeod is an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on identity politics in popular music, and the intersections between technology, science fiction, and rock music. His first book, We Are The Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music (Ashgate, 2011), examines the interconnection of sport and popular music in constructing racial, gender, socio-economic, and national identities.

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• Introduction: Revving Up1 "Come Away With Me, Lucille": A Brief History of Popular Song and Automobiles2 "No Particular Place to Go": Cars, Music, and African American Identity3 "Gotta Feel for My Automobile": Cars, Music, Gender, and Sexuality 4 If This Brand Were a Band: Sound and Music in Automotive Branding5 The Sound of Cars as Musical Objects: Tuning, Engine Sound Enhancement, and the Quest for Quiet6 Sound Systems, Sonic Performance, and the Car as Instrument of Identity7 Spare Parts: Cars and Soundtracks, Spiritual Connections, Location, and Theoretical Musings Conclusion: Shut DownBibliographyIndex

Ken McLeod is an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on identity politics in popular music, and the intersections between technology, science fiction, and rock music. His first book, We Are The Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music (Ashgate, 2011), examines the interconnection of sport and popular music in constructing racial, gender, socio-economic, and national identities.

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• Introduction: Revving Up1 "Come Away With Me, Lucille": A Brief History of Popular Song and Automobiles2 "No Particular Place to Go": Cars, Music, and African American Identity3 "Gotta Feel for My Automobile": Cars, Music, Gender, and Sexuality 4 If This Brand Were a Band: Sound and Music in Automotive Branding5 The Sound of Cars as Musical Objects: Tuning, Engine Sound Enhancement, and the Quest for Quiet6 Sound Systems, Sonic Performance, and the Car as Instrument of Identity7 Spare Parts: Cars and Soundtracks, Spiritual Connections, Location, and Theoretical Musings Conclusion: Shut DownBibliographyIndex