# Disturbing the Guests with This Racket"- Music and Twin Peaks Kathryn Kalinak **Opening (not a real abstract):** '' A savage subversion of TV's codes,'' is the way Rolling Stone writer David Breskin depicted Twin Peaks (60), a characterization repeated by dozens of reviewers and echoed in the perceptions of multitudes of viewers. Twin Peaks was undeniably a phenomenon, a compelling, distressing, distracting inversion of prime time network television. Putting your finger on Twin Peaks' pulse is not so easy, however. With its conspicuous borrowings from both populist televisual forms and cinematic "high" art traditions, bizarre generic and stylistic mix, strident referentiality (self and otherwise), calculatedly disruptive strategies, and attention to surface, Twin Peaks has been frequently described as postmodem. And its does seem likely that the show will take its place among an elite cadre of programs which have come to define television **Authors:** [[Music and Twin Peaks]]