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Author Hawkins, Stan

Title The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (401 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures and tables; List of musical examples; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: Sensing gender in popular music; PART 1 Masculinities, femininities, community, and transcultural practice; 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 looking6 "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 soundworlds, narratives, and stardom; 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 economy12 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; 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 Afrofuturism18 "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; 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 trans media: Temporal and narrative potential in messy musical archives
23 Confronting the gender trouble for real: Mina Caputo, metal truth and transgender powerBibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-371) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Popular music -- History and criticism
Sex role in music.
Gender identity in music.
Gender identity in music
Popular music
Sex role in music
Geschlechtsunterschied
Geschlechterrolle
Unterhaltungsmusik
Rockmusik
Popmusik
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317042044
1317042042