Pop Masculinities
The Politics of Gender in Twenty-First Century Popular Music
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 March 2022
- ISBN 9780190938796
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 159x241x18 mm
- Weight 463 g
- Language English 190
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Short description:
Pop Masculinities explores the many ways in which twenty-first century pop artists perform masculinity through their songs, music videos, and public appearances. This offers a point of entry for addressing broader gender issues in contemporary popular culture and society.
MoreLong description:
In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early twenty-first century. Drawing together perspectives from critical musicology, gender studies, and adjacent scholarly fields, the book presents extended case studies of five well-known artists: Zayn, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and Take That.
By directing particular attention to the ambiguities and contradictions that arise from these artists' representations of masculinity, Hansen argues that pop performances tend to operate in ways that simultaneously reinforce and challenge gender norms and social inequalities. Providing a rich exploration of these murky waters, Hansen merges the interpretation of recorded song and music video with discourse analysis and media ethnography in order to engage with the full range of pop artists' public identities as they emerge at the intersections between processes of performance, promotion, and reception. In so doing, he advances our understanding of the aesthetic and discursive underpinnings of gender politics in twenty-first century pop culture and encourages readers to contemplate the sociopolitical implications of their own musical engagements as audiences, critics, musicians, and scholars.
Hansen's conclusion is both an homage to masculinity in popular music studies and an invitation for future pop scholars to join him in this ever-expanding field of gender and performance.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Like Pinocchio
1. Separating the Men from the Boys: New Masculinities, Pop Music, and the Social Politics of Interpretation
2. Good Boy Gone Bad: Fashioning a Post Boy Band Masculinity
3. A Different Country? Lil Nas X, the Sound of the Internet, and Queering the Cowboy
4. Beyond Bieber Fever
5. Dangerous and (In)Vulnerable: Aestheticizing Violence and Dancing in Sin City
6. From Boy Band to Man Band: Take That, Age(ing), and the Display of Self-Irony
Conclusion: Fade-Out
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