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Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music. By Wendy Fonarow. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. xiv + 315 pp. ISBN 978-0-8195-6811-3 (pb)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2009

Kyle Devine  and
Tom Everrett
Kyle Devine
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Canada
Tom Everrett
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Canada
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Popular Music , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , May 2009 , pp. 265 - 267
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