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Death Ain't Nothin' New: From "John Barleycorn" to "John Walker's Blues" | p. 1 |
Teenage Wildlife: From Sob to Suicide | p. 23 |
Blood on the Floor: Music, Murder, and Morality | p. 51 |
How Does it Feel?: Death in the Sixties | p. 73 |
Appetite for Self-Destruction: Oblivion Songs | p. 94 |
Sweetness Follows?: Into the Great Beyond | p. 124 |
Gangsta Gangsta: Rap Reclaims the Murder Song | p. 143 |
Sometimes it Snows in April: The Music of Loss | p. 165 |
Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Fat Lady's Songbook | p. 192 |
The Art of Dying (Slight Return) | p. 202 |
Epilogue: To Die For: The Forty Greatest Death Records | p. 211 |
Notes on Sources | p. 231 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 235 |
Index | p. 237 |
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