Table of Contents
Introduction: The Greater Rock 'N' Roll Swindle 1
Part 1 Class Acts and Vanishing Acts 7
Class, retreating and returning 8
Chavs: the reworking of class 12
The demonisation of the female working class 17
'Chav' is (not just) a feminist issue 23
Part 2 Working for the Clampdown: Class and Gender in Britpop and After 29
2.1 The Day after the Revolution 30
2.2 90s: Death of a party 37
Stereotypes: there must be more to life 42
Wear high heels and get a record deal and you won't have time to be sad 51
Good taste is death, vulgarity is life: Shampoo and Kenickie 57
2.3 00s: Merrie England is mine, it owes me a living: Barât and Doherty 63
Predicting riots 70
Fairytales in the supermarket 74
Part 3 What Kind of A-to-Z Would Get You Here? 83
Privilege plays pop 84
The strange death of radical indie 87
Let them eat cupcakes 90
Radical chav: we are all underclass now? 93
