Misogyny, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity in post-2000 popular music [electronic resource] / Glenn Fosbraey, Nicola Puckey, editors.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]©2021

Fosbraey, Glenn. editor.

Puckey, Nicola. editor.

01-01-2021

1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages)

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Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender

Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender.

E-BOOK (Copy 1) EBL 1272653-1001 ONLINE

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Masculinity

Sexism

Music

Popular culture

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

9783030651893

This book presents chapters that have been brought together to consider the multitude of ways that post-2000 popular music impacts on our cultures and experiences. The focus is on misogyny, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity. The authors of the chapters consider these three concepts in a wide range of popular music styles and genres; they analyse and evaluate how the concepts are maintained and normalized, challenged, and rejected. The interconnected nature of these concepts is also woven throughout the book. The book also seeks to expand the idea of popular music as understood by many in the West to include popular music genres from outside western Europe and North America that are often ignored (for example, Bollywood and Italian hip hop), and to bring in music genres that are inarguably popular, but also sit under other labels such as rap, metal, and punk.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Unpacking the Title -- Misogyny -- Toxic Masculinity -- Heteronormativity -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 1: Should Real Love Hurt? The Eroticisation of Dominance, Submission and Coercive Control in Contemporary Pop Music -- Introduction -- Autobiographical Note -- Literature Review -- Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control -- Existing Research on Pop Music Lyrics, Gender and Sex -- Methods -- Findings -- Pleasure and Pain -- Ignoring the Advice of Others -- Attempting to Re-assert Power -- Cycle of Violence -- Control Complete -- Discussion -- Voluntary Masochism -- Female Empowerment -- Looking Forward: Thinking in New Ways -- References -- Chapter 2: Featuring...Nicki Minaj -- Biography, Message, and Voice -- Shared Responsibility? -- Control? -- Body Ideals -- Objectification? -- Conclusion -- References -- Songs -- Chapter 3: Misogyny and Erotic Pleasure in Bollywood's "Item Numbers" -- Introduction -- Analyzing Women's Representation in Films -- Globalization and Changes in Women's Representation in Bollywood Cinema -- Item Numbers: A Hybrid Global-Local Site for Gender Performance -- Method -- Findings and Discussion -- Themes Within the Lyrics of Item Numbers -- Sexual Objectification of Women in Item Numbers -- Women in Cameo Roles -- Single Woman, Ogling Men -- Uncovering Women, Covering Men -- Fragmented Bodies: Gyrating Hips, Undulating Navels, and Heaving Bosoms -- White Bodies as Objects of Desire -- Sexual Objectification Through the Use of Earthly Elements -- References -- Chapter 4: From Pimpology to Pimpologia: A Comparative Analysis of Pimp Rap in the United States and Italy -- Introduction -- The Rise of the Pimp Myth in American Rap -- A Comparative Analysis of Pimp Rap in Italy and the United States -- Conclusion.References -- Discography -- Filmography -- Chapter 5: How Female is the Future? Undoing Sexism in Contemporary Metal Music -- A Note on Methodology, Definitions and Limitations -- Act Like a Man: Adaptations of Masculine Metal Personas -- Adding a New Voice: Tribute Bands and the Digital Sphere -- Adapting Drag: Transforming Clichéd Notions of Femininity -- A Female Future? Gender Evolution in Metal Music -- References -- Chapter 6: See the Signs-Justin Timberlake and the Pretence of Romance -- References -- Chapter 7: Immortal Technique and the Radical Reimagining of Masculinity on the Street -- Background Context: Toxic Formations of Masculinity in Urban Contexts and Representations in Mainstream Hip-Hop -- A Notable Exception: Immortal Technique and Alternative Masculinities -- Resisting the Pull of the Mainstream -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Initiation: Re-negotiating Masculinity in Queer Music Video -- References -- Chapter 9: Let It Enfold You: Screaming, Masculinity, and the Loss of Emotional Control in Post-millennium Emo -- Introduction -- A Little Emo-tology: Marking the Subordinate -- Screaming as a Loss of Emotional Control -- Screaming and the Symbolic Gendered Power Dynamics of Emo -- References -- Chapter 10: The Power of Boy Pussy: The Dichotomy Between Liberation and Objectification in Queer Hip-Hop/Rap in the 2000s -- Liberation Identity and Hip-Hop -- The Tools of MAN -- MISSY -- Bounce Music, Male ownership, and Shakin' -- Shakin' -- Dichotomy of Visibility and Objectification -- The dark side of liberation -- Deep Dickollective from 2001 to 2007 -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: "All Of My Life, Just Like I Was One Of Them": Trans itioning Punk -- Introduction -- The Obnoxious Punk -- A Stifling Orthodoxy -- New Wave -- True Trans Soul Rebel -- Trans Romance -- Conclusion -- References.Chapter 12: Lady Lazarus: The Death (and Rebirth) of a Gender Revolutionary -- Questions of Identity -- The Great Pretender -- Famous Last Words -- Lines of Succession -- Straight Outta Brixton -- Lines of Resistance -- Looking Backward -- References -- Chapter 13: Like a Lollipop: Toxic Masculinity and Female Sexual Pleasure in Hip-Hop -- Sexual Scripts -- Sex Positivity -- Narratives Around Cunnilingus -- Misogyny and Toxic Masculinity -- Cunnilingus in Hip-Hop -- Women Rappers -- Shifting the Narrative -- Media as a Script Changer? -- Conclusion -- References -- Afterword -- Index.

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