From the Velvets to the Voidoids: the birth of American punk rock

Preface:Credit where credit is due, the appropriation of punk history

Precursors: Happiness is a warm drone

All the needles are on red

Energy freak-out freeform

This is the modern world

The underground jukeboxes

Suicide is painless

Trash

The first wave: From hosizontal aarsonists to neon boys

Jesus died for somebody's sins

The neon boys turn on New York

The Cadillac pulls out of the graveyard

Look out Cleveland

In the flesh

Gabba Gabba hey

The second wave: Down at the Rock & Roll club

This is radio Ethiopia

Living on Chinese rocks

The artistics come to town

Looking into the heart of darkness

Fuck art, let's rock

A punk-rocker parade

No wave-Goodbye!:

Instant sires from private stock

The last adventure

The final wave

Into the void

Doing the modern dance

Touched by the presence

Thrashing the waves

After the facts: A CBGB's chronology

Bibliography

Dramatis personae

Discography.