This collection of essays and interviews assembles scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on youth music and the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions on musical history, and social commentary on various genres.

Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, metal and rap music, and case histories of specific movements like the Riot Grrls, funk clubbing in Rio de Janeiro, and the British rave scene.