| Description |
vii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Oh boy! Making masculinity in popular music / Ian Biddle and Freya Jarman-Ivens -- Boys, boys, boys : male bonds, masculine connections. Which Freddie? Constructions of masculinity in Freddie Mercury and Justin Hawkins / Sheila Whiteley ; Negotiating masculinity in an Indonesian pop song : Doel Sumbang's "Ronggeng" / Henry Spiller ; Moshpit menace and masculine mayhem / Jonathan Gruzelier ; To see their father's eyes : expressions of ancestry through yarraṯa among Yolnu popular bands from Arnhem Land, Australia / Aaron Corn -- Boys don't cry : troubled/troubling masculinity. Mum's the word : men's singing and maternal law / Richard Middleton ; "The singsong of undead labor" : gender nostalgia and the vocal fantasy of intimacy in the "new" male singer/songwriter / Ian Biddle ; "A walking open wound" : emo rock and the "crisis" of masculinity in America / Sarah F. Williams ; "Don't cry, Daddy" : the degeneration of Elvis Presley's musical masculinity / Freya Jarman-Ivens -- Boys will be...? Other modes of masculinity. Queer voices and musical genders / Judith Halberstam -- (Un)Justified : gestures of straight-talk in Justin Timberlake's songs / Stan Hawkins ; "Not with you but of you" : "Unbearable intimacy" and Jeff Buckley's transgendered vocality / Shana Goldin-Perschbacher ; "Some of us can only live in songs of love and trouble" : voice, genre/gender, and sexuality in the music of Stephin Merritt / Mark J. Butler. |
| Subject |
Popular music -- History and criticism.
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Popular music. |
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Masculinity in music.
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Masculinity in music. |
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Gender identity in music.
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Gender identity in music. |
| Added Author |
Jarman-Ivens, Freya.
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| ISBN |
0415978203 |
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9780415978200 |
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0415978211 |
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9780415978217 |
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