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Pop & Postfeminism - Female Dandyism in Popular Music

English · Hardback

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Focusing on Amy Winehouse, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Lana del Rey, Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and ruptures postfeminist notions of femininity, such as maintaining a physique that conforms to contemporary beauty standards, constant self-surveillance and -improvement and the naturalisation of gender difference and heterosexuality. Popular music is an area where gender, especially femininity, is performed in both subversive and problematic ways, and where women''s contributions to popular music are regularly undervalued or simply go unwritten.The book is structured around four in-depth case studies to explore music video as a space in popular culture where politics of the feminine can be articulated, and a space in which female pop stars can be valued as artists with distinct contributions to the field of popular music. Each case study sheds light on different aspects of the postfeminist dandy in popular music. Amy Winehouse makes visible the commodification of the female spectacle in popular culture; Rihanna performs black femininity as postfeminism''s abject Other; Lady Gaga queers monstrous motherhood and celebrates female musical lineage; and Lana del Rey demonstrates how whiteness works as a canvas for postfeminist and postracial fantasies and their deconstruction. The theoretical insights regarding female dandyism developed through the case studies are further explored in the subsequent chapters, where other female artists are also considered.>

About the author

Nathalie Weidhase is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Surrey, UK. She has published on women in popular music and celebrity feminism in the journal Celebrity Studies, as well as in the collection Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing: Freeze Frame (2015).

Product details

Authors Nathalie Weidhase
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 03.10.2024
 
EAN 9781350158023
ISBN 978-1-350-15802-3
No. of pages 232
Dimensions 138 mm x 218 mm x 16 mm
Series Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art

Music, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, MUSIC / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / Popular Culture, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Film history, theory or criticism

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