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Zusatztext 'The range of case studies provided by Hawkins offers a very real opportunity to engage with the complex array of debates surrounding identity and representation.' Dr Sheila Whiteley! University of Salford! UK '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 to the mid-1980s! this is a good introduction to questions of identity raised in videos by Madonna and Prince! whose sexual masquerades continue both to provoke and to proclaim.' Popular Music '... the book offers a set of interpretive approaches to popular music and is a welcome addition to current scholarship on the subject.' Notes '... the author's emphasis on interpreting particular pop musicians and their 'identities' is a valuable and engaging exercise.' Context Informationen zum Autor Stan Hawkins Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. ...
