Scary Monsters - by Mark Duffett & Jon Hackett (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Through a series of case studies, Scary Monsters examines masculinity in popular music culture from the perspective of research into monstrosity"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more 'monsters' than might at first be imagined. Attention to such individuals and cultures can say things about the operation of genre and gender, myth and meaning. Indeed, monstrosity has recently become a growing focus of cultural theory. This is in part because monsters raise shared concerns about transgression, subjectivity, agency, and community. Attention to monstrosity evokes both the spectre of projection (which invokes familial trauma and psychoanalysis) and shared anxieties (that in turn reflect ideologies and beliefs). By pursuing a series of insightful case studies, <i>Scary Monster</i>s considers different aspects of the connection between music, gender and monstrosity. Its argument is that attention to monstrosity provides a unique perspective on the study of masculinity in popular music culture.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Scary Monsters</i> brings popular music studies into an innovative and important dialogue with theories of monstrosity. Exploring how culture and industry attribute the monstrous also enables Duffett and Hackett to analyse who is marked as innocent, naïve and exploited. Monstrosity is more than attribution alone, however, and this book interrogates pop music's monsters of toxic masculinity, ranging from managers to stars, and from fans to DJs. Pop's shiny glamour may promise what have often been culturally feminised pleasures, but <i>Scary Monsters</i> instead approaches the darker recesses and the dangerously romanticised excesses of popular music's 'monstrous masculine.'<br/>Matt Hills, Professor of Media and Film, University of Huddersfield, UK<br><br>Seldom has the monster metaphor been used with such depth, diversity and complexity in the field of popular music studies. Applying an overarching approach that covers music artists, managers, fans and associated showbusiness personalities, in<i> Scary Monsters</i> Duffett and Hackett present a compelling and theoretically rigorous account of popular music, monstrosity and masculinity that will serve as an invaluable resource for students and scholars in popular music studies, cultural studies, media and communications, sociology, social history and other fields concerned with the intricate relationship between popular culture and society.<br/>Andy Bennett, Professor, Griffith University, Australia<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Mark Duffett</b> is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Chester. He is known for the book <i>Understanding Fandom</i> (2013). <p/><b>Jon Hackett</b> is Associate Professor in Film and Communications and Head of Communications, Media and Marketing at St Mary's University, Twickenham, UK. His research and teaching interests include critical theory, film studies and popular music studies.</p>
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