Contents: Foreword, Keith Negus Preface, Christophe Beck and John C. King Introduction: a /Bay City Rollers. now thata (TM)s musica : music as cultural code in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vanessa Knights Part I Constructing Sound: Music, Noise and Silence: Love, death, curses and reverses (in E minor): music, gender, and identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Janet K. Halfyard 'What's my melody?' Music and the deployment of genre in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Louis Niebur Variations on themes for geeks and heroes: leitmotif, style, and the musico-dramatic moment, Rob Haskins 'What rhymes with lungs?' When music speaks louder than words, Arnie Cox and Rebecca FA lA p Battling the buzz: contesting sonic codes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Katy Stevens And the rest is silence: silence and death as motifs in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gerry Bloustein. Part II Owning Music: Bands, Fans and Pop Culture: Bronze things things of bronze: popular music cultures in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Catherine Driscoll More than a watcher: Buffy fans, amateur music videos, romantic slash and intermedia, Rob Cover 'You're just a girl!' Punk rock feminism and the new hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, RenA(c)e T. Coulombe Punks, geeks and Goths: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a study of popular music demographics on American commercial television, Kathryn Hill. Part III Making Music: Buffy, the Musical: Not 'the same arrangement': breaking Utopian promises in the Buffy musical, Diana Sandars and Rhonda V. Wilcox. 'Give me something to sing about': intertextuality and the audience in 'Once more with feeling', Amy Bauer Rock, television, paper, musicals, scissors: Buffy The Simpsons, and parody, Paul Attinello Afterword, Anahid Kassabian Bibliography Index.