Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index.
Contents
Around the dial -- Something better beginning : the creation of the Kinks -- Marketing and the money-go-round -- Humour and the Kinks -- I know what I am, and I'm Ggad I'm a man : sexuality and gender in the music, performance, and image of the Kinks -- Here comes Mr Flash : anti-Utopia, politics, and social consciousness -- I miss the village green : the past as refuge -- This strange effect : the Kinks as others see them.