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Tom Petty: Essays on the Life and Work

  • Editor: Sands, Crystal D.

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Contents

  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Crystal D. Sands
  • No! in Thunder: American Wildflowers Reborn (Stephen Newton)
  • Place, Race and Mutability: Everyman’s Hillbilly Rhetoric (Mara Lee Grayson)
  • Tom Petty’s “Magic” of Success and the Craft of a Writer (Crystal D. Sands)
  • A Career in Review (Spencer Rowland)
  • Psychedelic Strangeness: “Don’t Come Around Here No More”
  • and Other Magical Music Videos (Tom Zlabinger)
  • Running Down an American Dream: Tom Petty and the
  • Tour ­T-Shirt (Lauren Alex ­O’Hagan)
  • Fashioning a Rock Star: Petty’s Clothing Choices and Their
  • Connections (Megan Volpert)
  • Contributing to Success: Tom Petty, the Heartbreakers and Baby Boomer Behavior (Rebecca A. Caton)
  • Pretty Woman, American Girl: The Female in American
  • Popular Music, 1960–2000 (Pamela P. ­O’Sullivan)
  • Rebels, Refugees and American Girls: A Study of Tom Petty’s
  • Political Mojo (Alessandra Clayton Trindle)
  • Something Good: An Exploration of the Issue of Cover Bands (Karen Friend)
  • Fears, Frustrations and Knowing How It Feels: The Emotional
  • Signifiers of Tom Petty’s Songs (Nate Bauer and Shye Gilad)
  • Peace and Petty: Music’s Healing Power (Shawn W. Murphy)
  • About the Contributors
  • Index