Oh boy! : masculinities and popular music / edited by Freya Jarman-Ivens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jarman-Ivens, Freya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Masculinity in music.

Gender identity in music.

Physical Description:

vii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2007]

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

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 yarrat̲a 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415978203

9780415978200

0415978211

9780415978217

OCLC:

79256778