NUtnber Five ALTERNATIVE TO WHAT? Rock n Roll is The Health of the State, Tom Frank, p. 5

Eulogy: Sun Ra, Bob Nastanovich, p. 20

Making the Scene: Brain Dead in Seattle, Eric Iversen, p. 21

The Problem With Music, Steve Albini, p. 31 Rebel Rock in Moscow, Nathan Frank, p. 41 Why I am Very Angry, Seth Sanders, p. 47 A Nest of Ninniea, Selected Scorchings, p. 50 Sweet Portable You, Music Reviews, p. 53

The Name Caller, Steve Healey, p. 81

Sass Sells, Tom Frank, p. 95 World Music and You, Herbert Mattelart, p. 103

TWENTY-NOTHING REVISITED We're Marketed, Therefore We Are!, Stephen Duncombe, p. 131

BeatnikMania-Again!, Maura Mahoney, p. 149 The Retro Apocalypse, Tom Vanderbilt, p. 152

CONSOLIDATED DEVIA.NCE, INC. An Exclusive Baffler Investment Opportunity, p.159

FICTION Not the Plaster Casters, Janice Eidus, p. 43 The District Supervisor, Robert Nedelkoff, p. 59

The Grace of God, Mat Lebowitz, p. 87 A Gray Day in Ann Arbor, Rick Perlstein, p. 112

I am the Light, Dan Libman, p. 115 Gedney Goes Underground, Staff, p. 139

POETRY

ART

Gaston de Beam, p. 93 David Berman, pp. 16,85.

Scenes from a Lifestyle, Illustrations by Don MacKeen

Alec Dinwoodie, pp. 80, 110

Joe Fodor, pp. 27, 158

The Hippogryph Files, Patrick Welch, p. 63 What is Alternative, Chris Holmes, p. 28

James Tolan, p. 40

Latchkey Larry, Greg Fiering, p. 155 Second printing-,June, 1994

The topic for BalRer #6 is "Business Culture and the Culture Business." Is Schwarrenegger worth a trade war with France? Will the penetration of the rule of business into every aspect of American life be as wonderful as that annoying child from MCI says it will be? We doubt it. Send us revealing memos, corporate newsletters, cultural anifucts, and whatever else you think appropriate.

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