Oh boy! : masculinities and popular music /
Oh boy! : masculinities and popular music /
edited by Freya Jarman-Ivens.
- vii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 sing-song 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.
"From Muddy Waters to Mick Jagger, Elvis to Freddie Mercury, and from Jeff Buckley to Justin Timberlake, masculinity in popular music has been an issue explored by performers, critics, and audiences. Oh Boy! is the first serious study of how forms of masculinity are negotiated, constructed, represented and addressed in popular music texts and practices. Written by a group of internationally recognized pop music scholars including: Sheila Whiteley, Richard Middleton, and Judith Alberstam, the essays are anchored by musical analysis or close reading of musical texts and discourses. For students of popular music, performance, and gender studies, this collection focuses on the growing interest in masculinity. Oh Boy! represents a long overdue addition to the fields of popular music studies and gender studies, and is placed firmly at the intersection of these two well-established fields of study."--Publisher description.
0415978203 9780415978200 0415978211 9780415978217
2007001859
Popular music--History and criticism
Masculinity in music
Gender identity in music
ML3470 / .O4 2007
781.63081
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 sing-song 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.
"From Muddy Waters to Mick Jagger, Elvis to Freddie Mercury, and from Jeff Buckley to Justin Timberlake, masculinity in popular music has been an issue explored by performers, critics, and audiences. Oh Boy! is the first serious study of how forms of masculinity are negotiated, constructed, represented and addressed in popular music texts and practices. Written by a group of internationally recognized pop music scholars including: Sheila Whiteley, Richard Middleton, and Judith Alberstam, the essays are anchored by musical analysis or close reading of musical texts and discourses. For students of popular music, performance, and gender studies, this collection focuses on the growing interest in masculinity. Oh Boy! represents a long overdue addition to the fields of popular music studies and gender studies, and is placed firmly at the intersection of these two well-established fields of study."--Publisher description.
0415978203 9780415978200 0415978211 9780415978217
2007001859
Popular music--History and criticism
Masculinity in music
Gender identity in music
ML3470 / .O4 2007
781.63081