White Boys, White Noise: Masculinities and 1980s Indie Guitar RockAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 200 páginas To what extent do Indie masculinities challenge the historical construction of rock music as patriarchal? This key question is addressed in this text, by examining Indie guitar rock in the 1980s and 90s as the culturally and historically specific production of white men. |
Contenido
General Editors Preface | vi |
Acknowledgements | vii |
White boys | viii |
Contextualising indie | xiv |
John Lennon was my father | xvii |
Feminism and men | xviii |
Gender and writing on indie rock | xx |
An overview | xxii |
Behavioural aspects performance packaging | 77 |
Social and ideological aspects the social image of the musician and audience | 79 |
Conclusions | 84 |
The singer or the song? Homosociality genre and gender | 89 |
Southern California hardcore | 91 |
Straight edge | 94 |
UK indie and homosociality | 96 |
Kinship and the male gaze | 97 |
Reviewing theories and representations of masculinities | xxvii |
Straw men | 1 |
Ethnographic and subcultural studies of rock | 2 |
Gender and psychology | 9 |
Masculinity and the Frankfurt School | 11 |
Gender and social construction | 15 |
Subjective realities | 18 |
Conclusions | 21 |
Powerless power masculine intellectualism and aesthetics | 23 |
Classical discourse | 26 |
Classical music and masculinity | 28 |
Rock aesthetics folk and black culture | 31 |
Rock and high art | 34 |
Art rock | 35 |
Art rock and camp | 38 |
Ill be your mirror The Velvet Underground | 42 |
White hole | 44 |
Punk | 47 |
Punk and ethnicity | 49 |
Psychedelia and ego death | 50 |
Conclusions | 53 |
What does it mean to be alternative? Indie guitar rock as a genre | 55 |
Local scenes and global genres | 57 |
Indie and the mainstream | 58 |
Indie pop | 59 |
Splitting and purity | 62 |
Genre description | 63 |
Production commercial and juridical aspects | 64 |
Formal and technical aspects aural characteristics instrumentation rhythmic and melodic rules studio sound balance of mix elements | 67 |
Semiotic aspects musical expressivity lyrics intertextuality degrees of intimacy and distance | 72 |
Women in indie bands | 101 |
Dinosaur Jr youre living all over me | 103 |
Some masculine coping strategies REM and The Smiths | 105 |
Conclusions | 107 |
Someone controls electric guitar indie and technologies | 109 |
Ironic amateurism technological infantilism | 111 |
Indie and technology | 116 |
Representations of indie masculinities in sound | 118 |
The electric guitar in punkindie | 119 |
Timeless flight The Byrds | 122 |
Archivalism and canonism | 124 |
Conclusions | 129 |
What will I do if she dies? Music misery and white masculinities | 131 |
Feminism | 133 |
The suffering artist | 135 |
Nostalgia the 1960s and infantilism | 136 |
The sadistic intellectual the auteur | 138 |
Masculine splitting and schizophrenia broader theories | 141 |
Remedies | 142 |
Grunge Nirvana and the postmodern subject | 144 |
Morrissey Warhol and narcissism | 147 |
Conclusions | 153 |
white noise | 156 |
And what of my own practice as a musician? | 163 |
Bibliography | 166 |
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