" In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the
emergence of a vibrant popular culture. Drawing on sixteen years of research, Jeroen de …

Who are pop dandies? Why are stars like David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty and
Robbie Williams so dandified? Taking up a wide range of British pop stars, Hawkins seeks …

The analysis of popular music forces us to rethink the assumptions that underpin our
approaches to the study of Western music. Not least, it brings to the fore an idea that many …

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 …

Too Much Too Young investigates how age and gender have shaped the careers and
images of pop music stars, examining the role of youth and youthfulness in pop music …

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 …

When musicians 'cover'a previously recorded song, they provide an intertextual commentary
on another musical work or style. This paper considers several ways in which such …

I first make my way to the “Gayborhood” in the rural US South as a retreat from my day-to-
day life in New York City. After a twenty-fourhour bus ride, I am picked up at the Greyhound …

This doctoral thesis is an investigation of gender constructions in Norwegian secondary
school music education. With the high influence of popular music and band instrumentation …

Shifty harmonies in 'West End Girls' This first section is for readers interested in technical
musical analysis. Others may wish to skip ahead to the next section: while one of my goals is …