… celebrity culture, I have gradually worked out that music not only affects our identities but …
identity politics therefore has important social and cultural implications for understanding pop …

… , the enjoyment of popular music, and the understanding of identity politics. Despite the
terminological hiccups, Settling the Pop Score should prove a useful tool for the further study of …

… pop texts themselves. In particular, the insistent theme is the desire to walk that path between
structural analyses of pop texts and identity politics. … contexts, account for aspects of identity …

… between pop music texts and identity), they differ in the extent to which they focus on the
historical and the textual: whereas Stan Hawkins presents a predominantly textual analysis of …

… With Settling the Pop Score, Hawkins aligns himself with this tradition. … the stereotypes of
sexuality and gender roles in society using pop music as a vehicle of expression, and attempts …

… understanding how cultural texts and practices … identity politics) – is incompatible with
thinking about middle-ground territories such as nation-states as sites of affiliation or identification.…

… The pop realm also represents a particularly rich area for studying gender. This is partly
because gender identities are frequently made theatrical through pop texts, something that …

… Med boken Settling the Pop Score. Pop texts and identity politics fra 2002 brukte
populærmusikkforskeren Stan Hawkins begrepet «musical reading» om sin metodologiske omgang …

… Queer pop acts, as we will see, ascribe meanings to texts that are fluid, free-floating and …
Throughout this book the recorded song constitutes the score, where the prescription of its …

… me with an understanding of identity politics through the love of popular music… text (and in
our case, the ‘recorded’ text), which function as part of culture’s take on itself.Arguably, the pop …