Introduction: Just Can't Get Enough: Synth-Pop and its Repercussions
Geoff Stahl, Nabeel Zuberi, and Holly Kruse

Part 1: Prototypes and Precursors
1. Towards Tomorrow: Electronic Library Music in the 1960s and 1970s
Elodie A. Roy, Glasgow School of Art, UK
2. Hot Butter Covered “Popcorn”: The Durability of a Plastic Pop Phenomenon
Geoff Stahl, Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Part 2: Synthesising Sounds
3. Are Hooks Electric? The Synth as a Hook in Synth-Pop Hits (1978-1983)
Jadey O'Regan, University of Sydney and Tim Byron, University of Wollongong, Australia
4. 'We Came to Dance': Synth-Pop and the 12-inch Single
Adrian Renzo, Macquarie University, Australia
5. Constructing New Authenticities in Synth-Pop by Music Technology: Drum Machines and Grooves on the Grid
Robert Michler, Bern University, Switzerland
6. Synthestalgia: Ideology and Aesthetics of Synthesizers in Software and Hardware Recreations
Pat O'Grady, Australian National University

Part 3: Politics
7. Are 'Friends' Electric: Class, Control and Technological Determinism
Hussein Boon, University of Westminster, UK
8. Atomic: Synth-Pop and the Aesthetics of Nuclear Armageddon
Stephen Hill, The Borgate School, UK
9. Spanish Synth-Pop, Radical Ideology, and Electronic Punk: The Techno-Anarchism of Aviador Dro.
Antonio Pineda and Jorge David Fernández Gómez, University of Seville, Spain
10. Black Celebration in Red Prague: Depeche Mode in Concert, March 1988
Ondrej Daniel, Charles University, Prague

Part 4: Artists
11. “Mensch, Natur, Technik”: Technocriticism and Ecocriticism in Kraftwerk
Giorgos Zoukas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Georgia Eirini Tserkezi, Independent Researcher, Greece
12. The Media Landscape of Synth-Pop in Japan: Yellow Magic Orchestra and Postmodern Culture in Japan
Yoshitaka Mori, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
13. Problèmes d'Amour: Alexander Robotnick's Italian Post-Disco
Anomaly
Guglielmo Bottin, University of Milan, Italy
14. Patrick Gibson, Systematics, Ya Ya Choral and M Squared: Australian Adventures on the Fringes of Synth-Pop, 1979-83
John Encarnação, Western Sydney University, Australia
15. Ominous Sounds in the Silence: ABBA's Voyage into Synth-Pop
Amanda Mills, University of Otago, New Zealand
16. Mapping the Pop Terrain: Visuality, Aesthetics, and the 'Time-Space' of Duran Duran
Alison Blair, University of Otago, New Zealand
17. “A Sonic Abortion”: The Synth-Pop Debuts of Ministry
Manuel Neyssensas, University of Nice, France

Part 5: Spaces, Imaginaries and Circulations
18. Two Gendered Spaces of Early Synth-Pop: A Brief Autoethnography
Holly Kruse, Rogers State University, USA
19. Imaginative Geographies Made Concrete: Utopian Pasts, Alienated Presents, Synthetic Futures
Kevin Milburn, London South Bank University, UK
20. Polish Popular Music and Synth-Pop of the 1980s
Marek Jezinski, Nicolas Copernicus University, Poland
21. Beyond Disco: South Asian Synth-Pop from Birmingham and Beyond
Nabeel Zuberi, University of Auckland, New Zealand
22. Generation Blitz: Mapping the Contemporary Global Synth-Pop Ecosystem
Martin James, Solent University, UK