Pop masculinities : the politics of gender in twenty-first century popular music / Kai Arne Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Kai Arne, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Masculinity in music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In this work, 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 21st 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.

Contents:

Cover

Pop Masculinities

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

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

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-093883-8

0-19-093881-1

OCLC:

1257402017