Music in youth culture : a Lacanian approach /

Jagodzinski, Jan, 1948-

Music in youth culture : a Lacanian approach / Jan Jagodzinski. - x, 321 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.

Introduction : aural/oral connections -- Theoretical considerations -- Stuttering in-between Deleuze and Lacan - acts of transposition -- The figurality of noise and the silence of the death drive -- The uncanny figural voice -- Perversions of the music scene : the boyz/bois/boys -- The perversions of gangsta rap : death drive and violence -- Gangsta sadomasochism : tails yo' good, heads yo' bad -- Plummeting the gothic depths on the soul : Nu metal and its beyond -- The "grunge" of punk-rock : slacking off -- Serial connections : the MM show -- Beyond the law : the anti-slacker as mass murderer -- The new Castrati : men II boys -- The hysterization of the music scene : the gurlz/girls/grrrls -- Postmodern hysterics : playing with the virginity card -- The dilemmas of gurlz' desires : perverting the post-patriarchal order -- The good witch-bitch : grrrl power as the desublimated ugly aesthetic -- The new virginity : the nostalgic return of the veil -- Interlude -- The fan(addict) : the Sinthome of believing in the multiples of ONE -- Let's rave not rage! : new age techno hippies and digital electronica -- Conclusions : an ethics of the real -- An ethical "act" in the real : a brief meditation to close -- Coda : to Jeremy. I. 1. 2. 3. II. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. III. 11. 12. 13. 14. IV. 15. 16. 17.

"Music in Youth Culture examines the fantasies of post-Oedipal youth cultures as displayed on the landscape of popular music from a post-Lacanian perspective. Jan Jagodzinski, drawing on the Lacanian psychoanalytic paradigm, maintains that a new set of signifiers is required to grasp the sliding signification of contemporary "youth". He discusses topics such as the figurality of noise, the perversions of the music scene by boyz/bois/boys and the hysterization of it by gurlz/girls/grrrls. Music in Youth Culture also examines the postmodern "fan(addict)," techno music, and pop music icons. Jagodzinski raises the Lacanian question of "an ethics of the Real" and also asks educators to re-examine "youth" culture for the 21[superscript st] century."--BOOK JACKET.

1403965307 9781403965301

2005047696


Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981


Rock music--Social aspects
Music and youth
Psychoanalysis and music

ML3918.R63 / J34 2005

306.484264

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