Part I. Eighteen years of dawning
ch. 1. Boy to man : a Dublin-shaped band / Neil McCormick
ch. 2. My voyage of discovery : returning October's lost lyrics / Danielle Rhéaume
ch. 3. Potent crossroads : where U2 and progressive awareness meet / Rachel E. Seiler
ch. 4. The authentic self in Paul Ricoeur and U2 / Jeffrey F. Keuss and Sara Koenig
Part II. Don't expect, suggest
ch. 5. Vocal layering as deconstruction and reinvention in U2 / Christopher Endrinal
ch. 6. "Bullet in the sky" as an evolving performance / Steve Taylor
ch. 7. U2 : an elevated brand / Michele O'Brien
ch. 8. Nothing succeeds like a failure : U2 and the politics of irony / Keving J. H. Dettmar
ch. 9. Playing the tart : contexts and intertexts for "Until the end of the world" / Daniel T. Kline
ch. 10. Where Leitourgia has no name : U2 live / Beth Maynard
ch. 11. Bono v. Nick Cave Re : Jesus / Greg Clarke
ch. 12. Fallen angels in the hands of U2 / Deane Galbraith
Part IV. When I look at the world
ch. 13. Bono's rhetoric of the auspicious : translating and transforming Africa for the consumerist West / Bruce L. Edwards
ch. 14. Boy, baby, and bomb : U2's use of antilanguage / John Hurtgen
ch. 15. All that we can't leave behind : U2's conservative voice / Stephen Catanzarite
ch. 16. Across the universe : U2's hope in space and time / Scott Calhoun.