Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics
- Author: Hawkins, Stan
Settling the Pop Score should prove a useful tool for the further study of musicians like Morrissey, Annie Lennox and the Pet Shop Boys. For those whose cultural memory does not reach back... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: General editor's preface
- Settling the pop score...: Introduction
- Grounding aesthetic and ideological values
- Musical codes and compositional design
- Identity politics
- Modelling identity
- Interpreting ironic intent
- Further discursions into the pop text
- Towards a critical musicology of the popular
- Mobilising the pop score
- 'I'll never be an angel': stories of deception in Madonna's music: Introduction
- Reading musical codes in Madonna's performance
- Hearing, seeing, feeling gender
- Spectatorship and seduction
- Production and (post)modernist 'Survival'
- Final concluding thoughts
- Anti-rebel, lonesome boy: Morrissey in crisis?: Introduction
- With a thorn in his side
- Constructs of male identity in Morrissey
- Characterisation and 'star' depiction
- Modelling empathy through vocal 'sound'
- Interpreting ironic markers in pop texts
- Conclusion
- Annie Lennox's 'Money Can't Buy It' - masquerading identity: Introduction
- Opting for gender disguise
- Questions of musical coding
- Visualising sound through videography
- Being totally Diva
- Conclusion
- 'Call it performance, honey': The Pet Shop Boys: Introduction
- Masculinity in the 1980s
- Being boring and clever: style as rhetoric
- Banality: political discourses of pleasure and power
- Musical (dis)pleasures
- 'Disco-Tex and the Sexelettes': satirical musical address
- Towards a PSB discourse
- Conclusion
- Subversive musical pleasures in 'The Artist (Again) Known as Prince': Introduction
- Dialectics of music and imagination
- Identity as racial commodity
- Stylistic and technical codes in Diamonds and Pearls
- Sexing and 'spinning' gender in musical expression
- Carnivalesque musical display: signs of the times?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Discography
- Index.