Scary monsters : monstrosity, masculinity and popular music /

Publication Type:

Book

Source:

Bloomsbury Academic,, New York City, United States ; London, United Kingdom, p.1 online resource (256 pages) (2020)

Call Number:

ML3918.P67

Other Number:

10.5040/9781501313400

URL:

https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501313400?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections

Mots-clés:

(OCoLC)fst01025752, (OCoLC)fst01071460, (OCoLC)fst01738370, bicssc, fast, Masculinity in music., Monsters., Popular music, Social aspects., Theory of music & musicology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Jon Hackett -- A Night at the Opera : Updating The Phantom / Mark Duffett -- His Muscles Still Bulged Like Iron Bands' : King Kong and the Promotion of Lead Belly / Mark Duffett -- Colonel Parker and the Art of Commercial Exploitation : The Manager as Monster / Mark Duffett -- The Platformed Prometheus : Frankenstein and Glam Rock / Jon Hackett -- The Case of Mark Chapman : Extreme Fandom as Monstrosity? / Mark Duffett -- Exhuming the Gravediggaz : Gothic Hip Hop and Monster Capital / Jon Hackett -- Masculinity on Trial : Noir Désir and Perverse Narcissism / Jon Hackett -- 'Jingle Jangle Man' : Jimmy Savile, Paedophilia and the Music Industry / Mark Duffett."Through a series of case studies, Scary Monsters examines masculinity in popular music culture from the perspective of research into monstrosity"--Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily