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Book SynopsisPopular Musicology and Identity paves new paths for studying popular music's entwinement with gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, locality, and a range of other factors. The book consists of original essays in honour of Stan Hawkins, whose work has been a major influence on the musicological study of gender and identity since the early 1990s. In the new millennium, musicological approaches have proliferated and evolved alongside major shifts in the music industry and popular culture. Reflecting this plurality, the book reaches into a range of musical contexts, eras, and idioms to critically investigate the discursive structures that govern the processes through which music is mobilised as a focal point for negotiating and assessing identity. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, Popular Musicology and Identity accounts for the state of popular musicology at the onset of the 2020s while also offering a platform for the further advancement of the crit
Trade Review
Popular Musicology and Identity attests to Stan Hawkins’s visionary approach in collaborating and bonding with today’s and tomorrow’s leading voices on matters popular. This volume is required reading for anyone interested in how gender, sexuality, class, and identity are expressed through – and manipulated by – popular music’s tools, artists, and audiences.
Nina Eidsheim (UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music)
Over the last 25 years Stan Hawkins' subtly subversive musicology has revealed a rich new pop world of sexual show-offs and dandies. This collection of essays is an affectionate and instructive exploration of that world, a celebration of the fluidity of the borderlands between art and entertainment, surface and depth, truth and invention, and the look and the sound of music.
Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh)
From nineteenth-century British music hall through Nordic cool to cultural celebrity in Canada, this is a fitting tribute to Stan Hawkins’s pioneering musicological imagination; linking pop sounds to the multiple identities and varied voices of its performers. It is a compelling compendium; evidence of Hawkins’s major contribution to Northern European and Transatlantic music scholarship.
Keith Negus (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Table of ContentsIntroduction: a musicology of popular music and identity
KAI ARNE HANSEN, EIRIK ASKERØI, AND FREYA JARMAN
1 The British dandy on the popular musical stage (1866–1915)
DEREK B. SCOTT
2 ‘She Said She Said’: the influence of feminine ‘voices’ on John Lennon’s music 32
MATTHEW BANNISTER AND MEGAN ROGERSON-BERRY
3 The classical closet
SUSAN MCCLARY
4 Perfect duet? Paradoxes of gender representation and mixedgender collaborations on the Billboard charts from 1955 to 2017
BARBARA BRADBY
5 The pleasure(s) of the pop text: subversion and theatricality in Cloroform and Tove Lo
JON MIKKEL BROCH ÅLVIK
6 ‘Everyone is a little bit gay’: LGBTIQ activism in Finnish pop music of the 21st century
SUSANNAVÄLIMÄKI
7 ‘Keeping it real’, ‘Keeping it dandy’? Male blackness and the popular music mainstream
ANNE DANIELSEN
8 Global success, identitarian performance, and Canadian popular music
WILL STRAW
9 ‘Very’ British: a pop musicological approach to the Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Always on My Mind’
SHARA RAMBARRAN
10 Pulp: a paradigm for perversion in pornosonic pop
KENNETH SMITH
11 Regina Spektor’s Small Bill$: the cute and the manic-zany as body-political strategies
JOHN RICHARDSON AND ANNA-ELENA PÄÄKKÖLÄ
12 Masculinity and the illness narrative in Pain of Salvation’s In the Passing Light of Day
LORI BURNS
