This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting
the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady …

In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of
masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and …

As with most popular musicologists, I entered the academic study of popular music through
my experience as a performing musician—in my case as a guitarist both live and in the …

Throughout the history of music recording, the use of certain technologies and instruments
has left distinctive marks on recordings–marks that imply an intrinsic relationship between …

The newest, most updated book on Prince available today—now updated with information
about the afterlife of his work following his untimely death. Famously reticent and perennially …

Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians focuses on ageing within contemporary
popular music. It argues that context, genres, memoirs, racial politics and place all contribute …

This paper examines the early performance style of Michael Jackson and argues that his
work as a child prodigy is crucial to understanding his adult career. As a young boy, Jackson …

Many of Jackson's performances can be read as queer, but his treatment of rock music is
particularly so. Jackson appeared to use rock either to upset normative gendered and …

This chapter aims to fuse together various theoretical perspectives through a critical
examination of the strategies behind female masculinity. It explores the MC character and …

The all-embracing," whaddya got?" nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop
music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four …