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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 musi

This collection of essays by distinguished authors explores the present-day field of theological aesthetics: from von Balthasar¿s contribution and parallel developments to correctives and alternatives to his approach. A tribute to von Balthasar¿s own project expands into a dialogue with ancient and medieval traditions in search of revelatory aesthetics. The contributors outline challenges to his approach (including Protestant perspectives) and...

Arguing that music not only affects our identities but shapes them, this work explores the interpretation of popular music. It examines the functions of pop music within a constantly shifting social plane from the 1980s onwards, suggesting various approaches for the analysis of pop music.

What defines pop music? Why do we consider some styles as easier listening than others? Arranged in three parts: Aesthetics and Authenticity - Groove, Sampling and Industry - Subjectivity, Ethnicity and Politics, this title deals with these questions in diverse ways.

This much-needed interdisciplinary analysis is the first of its kind to examine critically Prince's popular music, performances, sounds, lyrics and the plethora of accompanying visual material such as album covers, posters, fashions, promotional videos and feature films. Specifically.

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Who are pop dandies? Why are stars like David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker and Robbie Williams so dandified? Taking up a range of British pop stars, Hawkins seeks to find out why so many British pop stars have cast themselves in roles that often take style to absurd extremes. In this study, male pop artists are mapped against a cultural and historical background through a genealogy of British personalities, such as Oscar Wilde, W.H. Auden, Bernard Sha...

This much-needed interdisciplinary analysis is the first of its kind to examine critically Prince's popular music, performances, sounds, lyrics and the plethora of accompanying visual material such as album covers, posters, fashions, promotional videos and feature films. Specifically.

Who are pop dandies? Why are stars like David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker and Robbie Williams so dandified? Taking up a range of British pop stars, Hawkins seeks to find out why so many British pop stars have cast themselves in roles that often take style to absurd extremes. In this study, male pop artists are mapped against a cultural and historical background through a genealogy of British personalities, such as Oscar Wilde, W.H. Auden, Bernard Sha...

Setting out to address a range of approaches to theorizing music and promulgating modes of analysis across a wide range of repertories, the essays in this collection can be read as a coming of age of critical musicology through its active dialogue with other disciplines such as sociology, feminism, ethnomusicology, history, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, aesthetics, media studies, film music studies, and gender studies. The volume...

This book investigates queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms to contribute to the corpus of scholarship in queer popular music studies. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality, which involves a creative interdisciplinary approach to musical interpretation. He advocates a model of analysis that involves both temporal-specific list...