Hawkins The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-04203-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 398 Seiten

Why is gender inseparable from pop songs? What can gender representations in musical performances mean? Why are there strong links between gender, sexuality and popular music? The sound of the voice, the mix, the arrangement, the lyrics and images, all link our impressions of gender to music. Numerous scholars writing about gender in popular music to date are concerned with the music industry’s impact on fans, and how tastes and preferences become associated with gender. This is the first collection of its kind to develop and present new theories and methods in the analysis of popular music and gender. The contributors are drawn from a range of disciplines including musicology, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, philosophy, and media studies, providing new reference points for studies in this interdisciplinary field. Stan Hawkins’s introduction sets out to situate a variety of debates that prompts ways of thinking and working, where the focus falls primarily on gender roles. Amongst the innovative approaches taken up in this collection are: queer performativity, gender theory, gay and lesbian agency, the female pop celebrity, masculinities, transculturalism, queering, transgenderism and androgyny. This Research Companion is required reading for scholars and teachers of popular music, whatever their disciplinary background.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawkins, Stan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Sensing Gender in Popular Music



PART 1 Masculinities, Femininities, Community and Transcultural Practice

Overview

2. Growing up to be a rapper? Justin Bieber’s duet with Ludacris as transcultural practice

3. "Where we going Johnny?" Homosociality and the early Beatles

4. From Throat Singing to Transcultural Expression: Tanya Tagaq’s Katajjaq Musical Signature

5. Spectres of Masculinity: Markers of Vulnerability and Nostalgia in Johnny Cash



PART 2 Audiovisuality, Sex(uality), Women, and the Politics of Looking

Overview

6. "You mean I can make a tv show?": Web series, assertive music, and African American women producers

7. Holding on for Dear Life: Gender, Celebrity Status, and Vulnerability-on-Display in Sia’s ‘Chandelier’

8. Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Looking in Beyoncé’s ‘Video Phone’ (Featuring Lady Gaga)

9. ‘Working It’: Female Masculinity and Missy Elliott



PART 3 Vernacular Soundscapes, Narratives and Stardom

Overview

10. High Notes, High Drama: Musical Climaxes and Gender Politics in Tenor Heroes and Broadway Women

11. The Gendered Narratives of Nobodies and Somebodies in the Popular Music Economy

12. ‘Staging the street boy’: Transculturalism, Realness, and Hypermasculinity in the Norwegian Rapper Jesse Jones

13. Fairport Convention: Gender and Voicing Strategies in a Sound Signature

14. ‘I Don’t Play Girly House Music’: Women, Sonic Stereotyping and the Dancing DJ



PART 4 Gender, Race and the Female Celebrity

Overview

15. ‘A Woman’s Place’: Staging Femininity in Live Music from Jenny Lind to the Jazz Age

16. BEYONCÉ: Hip Hop Feminism and the Embodiment of Black Femininity

17. Performing Race and Gender: Erykah Badu Between Post-Soul and Afrofuturism

18. ‘Armed with the faith of a child’: Marit Larsen and strategies of faking

19. ‘Singing from the Heart’: Notions of Gendered Authenticity in Pop Music



PART 5 Challenging Hegemonic Practices: New Masculinities, Queerness, and Transgenderism

Overview

20. Doing Hip-Hop Masculinity Differently: Exploring Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak through Word, Sound, and Image

21. Express Yourself! Gender Euphoria and Intersections

22. Covering Transmedia: Temporal and Narrative Potential in Messy Musical Archives

23. Confronting the Gender Trouble for Real: Mina Caputo, Metal Truth and Transgender Power

Über Autor(innen)

Stan Hawkins is Professor of Musicology at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. His research fields involve music analysis, popular musicology, gender and culture. From 2010-2014 he has led a Norwegian state-funded project, Popular Music and Gender in a Transcultural Context. He is author of Settling the Pop Score (2002), The British Pop Dandy (2009), and Prince: The Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon (2011). His edited volumes include Music, Space & Place (2004), Essays on Sound & Vision (2007), Pop Music & Easy Listening (2011), and Critical Musicological Reflections (2012). He is currently one of the General Editors for the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series.