Oh Boy!
Masculinities and Popular Music
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:25th Apr '07
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From Muddy Waters to Mick Jagger, Elvis to Freddie Mercury, Jeff Buckley to Justin Timberlake, masculinity in popular music has been an issue explored by performers, critics, and audiences. From the dominance of the blues singer over his "woman" to the sensitive singer/songwriter, popular music artists have adopted various gendered personae in a search for new forms of expression. Sometimes these roles shift as the singer ages, attitudes change, or new challenges on the pop scene arise; other times, the persona hardens into a shell-like mask that the performer struggles to escape.
Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music is the first serious study of how forms of masculinity are negotiated, constructed, represented and addressed across a range of popular music texts and practices. Written by a group of internationally recognized popular music scholars—including Sheila Whiteley, Richard Middleton, and Judith Halberstam—these essays study the concept of masculinity in performance and appearance, and how both male and female artists have engaged with notions of masculinity in popular music.
"Freya Jarman-Ivens and her fellow contributors offer a fresh and imaginative take on masculinity in popular music. This forward-looking book may well provide a model for future work in identity politics." --Kiera, Galway, Notes
"This well-written, meticulously edited book should serve as a springboard for research on this subject for years to come. Highly recommended." --CHOICE
"... Jarman-Ivens’ collection contains a series of thoughtful, well-written articles that investigate masculine identity construction in a number of different popular music genres. ... This anthology is a must for any scholar’s library that focuses on the cultural production and social positioning of masculinity in contemporary society, standing as a benchmark collection exploring masculinities in their variety of expression in the world of popular music." --Meryl Krieger, Journal of Folklore Research
ISBN: 9780415978217
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 530g
288 pages