Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents chapters that have been brought together to consider the multitude of ways that post-2000 popular music impacts on our cultures and experiences. The focus is on misogyny, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity. The authors of the chapters consider these three concepts in a wide range of popular music styles and genres; they analyse and evaluate how the concepts are maintained and normalized, challenged, and rejected. The interconnected nature of these concepts is also woven throughout the book. The book also seeks to expand the idea of popular music as understood by many in the West to include popular music genres from outside western Europe and North America that are often ignored (for example, Bollywood and Italian hip hop), and to bring in music genres that are inarguably popular, but also sit under other labels such as rap, metal, and punk.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1 : Should Real Love Hurt? The Eroticisation of Dominance, Submission and Coercive Control in Contemporary Pop Music
Chapter 2: Featuring…Nicki Minaj
Chapter 3 : Misogyny and Erotic Pleasure in Bollywood’s “Item Numbers”
Chapter 4 : From Pimpology to Pimpologia: A Comparative Analysis of Pimp Rap in the United States and Italy
Chapter 5 : How Female is the Future? Undoing Sexism in Contemporary Metal Music
Chapter 6 : See the Signs—Justin Timberlake and the Pretence of Romance
Chapter 7: Immortal Technique and the Radical Reimagining of Masculinity on the Street
Chapter 8 : The Initiation: Re-negotiating Masculinity in Queer Music Video
Chapter 9 : Let It Enfold You: Screaming, Masculinity, and the Loss of Emotional Control in Post-millennium Emo
Chapter 10 : The Power of Boy Pussy: The Dichotomy Between Liberation and Objectification in Queer Hip-Hop/Rap in the 2000s
Chapter 11 : “All Of My Life, Just Like I Was One Of Them”: Trans itioning Punk
Chapter 12 : Lady Lazarus: The Death (and Rebirth) of a Gender Revolutionary
Chapter 13 : Like a Lollipop: Toxic Masculinity and Female Sexual Pleasure in Hip-Hop
Afterword
