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100 1 $aHawkins, Stan,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe British pop dandy :$bmasculinity, popular music and culture /$cStan Hawkins.
246 30 $aMasculinity, popular music and culture
264 1 $aLondon :$bRoutledge,$c2016.
300 $a1 online resource
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490 1 $aAshgate popular and folk music series
588 0 $aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 14, 2017).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
520 $a"Who are pop dandies? Why are stars like David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty and Robbie Williams so dandified? Taking up a wide range of British pop stars, Hawkins seeks to find out why so many 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 personalities, such as Oscar Wilde, W.H. Auden, Andy Warhol, No?Coward, Derek Jarmen, David Beckham and countless others. A critical analysis of issues and approaches to musical performance through masculinity becomes the focal point of this fascinating study. Ranging from the sixties to beyond the twentieth century, The British Pop Dandy considers the construction of the male pop icon through the spectacle of videos, live concerts and films. Why do we derive pleasure from the performing body, and how is entertainment linked to categories of gender and sexuality? The author insists that pop performances can be understood through human characteristics that relate to the particulars of dandyism, camp and glamour, and this he theorizes through the work of Charles Baudelaire. One of the political objectives of the dandy is to liberate himself through a denial of the structures that assume fixed identity. Not least, it is acts of queering in pop music that characterize entire generations of male artists in the UK. Setting out to discover what distinguishes the British pop dandy, Hawkins considers the role of music and performance in the articulation of hyperbolic display. It is argued that the recorded voice is a construction that idealizes self-representation, and absorbs the listener's attention. Particularly, camp address in singing practice is taken up in conjunction with a discussion of intimacy, which forms part of the strategy of the performer. In a range of songs and videos selected for music analysis, Hawkins points to the uniqueness of the voice as it expresses a transgressive quali"--Provided by publisher.
505 0 $aChapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Oh So Dandy! The Force of Peculiarity -- chapter 2 Pop Subjectivities: Poise and Spectacle -- chapter 3 Virtual Insanity or the 'Real Thing'? -- chapter 4 With a Twist of the Straight: Dandyism and Gender Revolt -- chapter 5 Singing the Body Fantastic: Corporeality and the Voice -- chapter 6 Jack-a-Dandy: Masking, Virtuosity and Mannerism.
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650 0 $aPopular music$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aDandyism in music.
650 0 $aMusicians as dandies.
650 0 $aMasculinity in music.
650 0 $aSex role in music.
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650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE$xAnthropology$xCultural.$2bisacsh
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651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
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830 0 $aAshgate popular and folk music series.
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