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White boys, white noise : masculinities and 1980s indie guitar rock /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bannister, Matthew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]
Series:Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Subjects:
Alternative rock music > History and criticism.
Masculinity in music.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : 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.