Scary Monsters: Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music

Scary Monsters: Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music
ISBN-10
1501313398
ISBN-13
9781501313394
Series
Scary Monsters
Category
Music
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2021-01-14
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Authors
Mark Duffett, Jon Hackett

Description

Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more 'monsters' than might at first be imagined. Attention to such individuals and cultures can say things about the operation of genre and gender, myth and meaning. Indeed, monstrosity has recently become a growing focus of cultural theory. This is in part because monsters raise shared concerns about transgression, subjectivity, agency, and community. Attention to monstrosity evokes both the spectre of projection (which invokes familial trauma and psychoanalysis) and shared anxieties (that in turn reflect ideologies and beliefs). By pursuing a series of insightful case studies, Scary Monsters considers different aspects of the connection between music, gender and monstrosity. Its argument is that attention to monstrosity provides a unique perspective on the study of masculinity in popular music culture.

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