1st Edition
Queerness in Pop Music Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality
1. Setting the Stage: aesthetics, gender norms and temporality 2. Love – a very queer construct 3. ‘In and Out’: Games of Truth and the Confessional 4. Applause, Applause: Art into Pop 5. ‘Talking blah blah’: Camp into Queer 6. To be a boy? Masculinity and queer aesthetics 7. Futurity and Passion’s Compulsion
Biography
Stan Hawkins is Professor of Musicology at the University of Oslo and Adjunct Professor at the University of Agder. His research fields involve music analysis, popular musicology, gender studies and audiovisual theory. From 2010-2014 he led a Norwegian state-funded project, Popular Music and Gender in a Transcultural Context. He is also author of Settling the Pop Score (2002), The British Pop Dandy (2009), and co-author of 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).
'Queerness in Pop Music is a valuable and timely addition to the field of popular music studies with the author genuinely revelling in the process of exploring the texture of musical texts which toy with (hetero)normative assumptions on gender and sexuality. His ability to get to the heart of what’s going on, be it historically, culturally and/or musically in a visual/sonic text is admirable.'
Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales
