Why is gender inseparable from pop songs? What can gender representations in musical performances mean? Why are there strong links between gender, sexuality and popular music? The sound of the voice, the mix, the arrangement, the lyrics and images, all link our impressions of ge…
Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporaryKorean popular music. Each essay covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Korea, first presenting a g…
"Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians" focuses on ageing within contemporary popular music. It argues that context, genres, memoirs, racial politics and place all contribute to how women are 'aged' in popular music. Framing contemporary female musicians as canonical grandmot…
"A wide-ranging overview of current research on music videos and audiovisual elements of popular music"--.
"A wide-ranging overview of current research on music videos and audiovisual elements of popular music"--.
"A wide-ranging overview of current research on music videos and audiovisual elements of popular music"--
"Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music and culture. Offering the first extended look a…
Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music and culture. Offering the first extended look at…
