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