Hawkins, Stan, <br/><br/>
Settling the pop score :  pop texts and identity politics / 
Stan Hawkins. 
 - xiv, 220 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - Ashgate popular and folk music series .
 - Ashgate popular and folk music series. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes discography. 
<br/><br/> Settling the Pop Score --  'I'll Never Be an Angel': Stories of Deception in Madonna's Music --  Anti-rebel, Lonesome Boy: Morrissey in Crisis? --  Annie Lennox's 'Money Can't Buy It': Masquerading Identity --  'Call it Performance, Honey': The Pet Shop Boys --  Subversive Musical Pleasures in 'The Artist (Again) Known as Prince'.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6. 
<br/><br/> "The analysis of popular music forces us to rethink the assumptions that underpin our approaches to the study of Western music. Not least, it brings to the fore an idea that many musicologists still find uncomfortable - that commercial production and consumption can be aligned with artistic authenticity. Reading pop texts takes place through dialogue on many levels, which, as Stan Hawkins argues, deals with how musical events are shaped by personal alliances between the artist and the recipient." "The need for a critical approach to evaluating popular music lies at the heart of this book. Hawkins explores the relationships that exist between music, spectatorship and aesthetics through a series of case studies of pop artists from the 1980s and 1990s. Madonna, Morrissey, Annie Lennox, the Pet Shop Boys and Prince represent the diversity of cultures, identities and sexualities that characterised the start of the MTV boom." "Through the interpretation of aspects of the compositional design and musical structures of songs by these pop artists, Hawkins suggests ways in which stylistic and technical elements of the music relate to identity formation and its political motivations. Settling the Pop Score examines the role of irony and empathy, the question of gender, race and sexuality, and the relevance of textual analysis to the study of popular music. Interpreting pop music within the framework of musicology, Hawkins helps us to understand the pleasure so many people derive from these songs."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0754603512 9780754603511 0754603520 9780754603528 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001033361 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Popular music--Social aspects<br/>Gender identity in music<br/>Sex in music<br/>Musical analysis<br/>Musicology
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML3918.P67  / H39 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>782.42164