Popular music and the local state / Simon Frith -- "The cabaret is dead" : rock culture as state enterprise-the political organization of rock in East Germany / Peter Wicke and John Shepherd -- Popular music policy : a contested area-the Dutch experience / Paul Rutten -- The English Canadian recording industry since 1970 / Will Straw -- Making music local / Marcus Breen -- Who fought the law? The American music industry and the global popular music market / Steve Jones -- Radio space and industrial time : the case of music formats / Jody Berland -- Policing French-Language music on Canadian radio : the twilight of the popular record era? / Line Grenier -- Who killed the radio star? The death of teen radio in Australia / Graeme Turner -- From state monopoly to commercial oligopoly. European broadcasting policies and popular music output over the airwaves / Roger Wallis and Krister Malm -- Feminist musical practice : problems and contradictions / Mavis Bayton -- The framing of rock : rock and the new conservatism / Lawrence Grossberg -- Beat in the system / Ross Harley -- Black popular music : crossing over or going under? / Reebee Garofalo -- Aboriginal rock music : space and place / Chris Lawe Davies -- Afterword : music policy, aesthetic and social difference / Georgina Born