LEADER 04747oam 2200673M 450 001 9910784799603321 005 20230810000056.0 010 $a1-351-21801-8 010 $a1-351-21802-6 010 $a1-351-21800-X 010 $a1-281-89414-1 010 $a9786611894146 010 $a0-7546-8803-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000399144 035 $a(OCoLC)290509987 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10211199 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271262 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11224427 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271262 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10281975 035 $a(PQKB)10406622 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438538 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438538 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10211199 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL189414 035 $a(OCoLC)1011117021 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1011117021 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781351218023 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000399144 100 $a20171110d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhite Boys, White Noise: Masculinities and 1980s Indie Guitar Rock 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon :$cTaylor and Francis,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (229 p.) 225 1 $aAshgate popular and folk music series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7546-5190-8 311 $a0-7546-5188-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [168]-186) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : white boys-- -- Reviewing theories and representations of masculinities -- Powerless power : masculine intellectualism and aesthetics -- What does it mean to be alternative? : indie guitar rock as a genre -- The singer or the song? : homosociality, genre and gender -- Someone controls electric guitar : indie and technologies -- What will I do if she dies? : music, misery and masculinities -- Conclusion : --white noise. 330 2 $a"To what extent do indie masculinities challenge the historical construction of rock music as patriarchal? This key question is addressed by Matthew Bannister, involving an in-depth examination of indie guitar rock in the 1980s as the culturally and historically specific production of white men. Through textual analysis of musical and critical discourses, Bannister provides the first book-length study of masculinity and ethnicity within the context of indie guitar music within US, UK and New Zealand 'scenes'. Bannister argues that past theorisations of (rock) masculinities have tended to set up varieties of working-class deviance and physical machismo as 'straw men', oversimplifying masculinities as 'men behaving badly'. Such approaches disavow the ways that masculine power is articulated in culture not only through representation but also intellectual and theoretical discourse. By re-situating indie in a historical/cultural context of art rock, he shows how masculine power can be rearticulated through high, avant-garde, bohemian culture and aesthetic theory: canonism, negation (Adorno), passivity, voyeurism and camp (Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground), and primitivism and infantilism (Lester Bangs, Simon Reynolds). In a related vein, he also assesses the impact of Freud on cultural theory, arguing that reversing binary conceptions of gender by associating masculinities with an essentialised passive femininity perpetuates patriarchal dualism. Drawing on his own experience as an indie musician, Bannister surveys a range of indie artists, including The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and The Go-Betweens; from the US, R.E.M., The Replacements, Dinosaur Jr, HA??sker DA??, Nirvana and hardcore; and from NZ, Flying Nun acts, including The Chills, The Clean, the Verlaines, Chris Knox, Bailter Space, and The Bats, demonstrating broad continuities between these apparently disparate scenes, in terms of gender, aesthetic theory and approaches to popular musical history. The result is a book which raises some important questions about how gender is studied in popular culture and the degree to which alternative cultures can critique dominant representations of gender."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aAshgate popular and folk music series. 606 $aAlternative rock music$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMasculinity in music 615 0$aAlternative rock music$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMasculinity in music. 676 $a781.66 700 $aBannister$b Matthew$01532799 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784799603321 996 $aWhite Boys, White Noise: Masculinities and 1980s Indie Guitar Rock$93779293 997 $aUNINA