Scary Monsters: Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music

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Dr. Mark Duffett (University of Chester, UK) Professor Jon Hackett (Programme Director in Screen Media, St Mary’s University, UK)

Scary Monsters

Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music

Dr. Mark Duffett (University of Chester, UK), Professor Jon Hackett (Programme Director in Screen Media, St Mary’s University, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
08 April 2021

Theory of music & musicology; Music reviews & criticism; Easy listening, MOR music

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, Scary Monsters 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.

By: Dr. Mark Duffett (University of Chester UK), Professor Jon Hackett (Programme Director in Screen Media, St Mary’s University, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 549g
ISBN: 9781501313370
ISBN 10: 1501313371
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 08 April 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Jon Hackett 1. A Night at the Opera: Updating The Phantom Mark Duffett 2. ‘His Muscles Still Bulged Like Iron Bands’: King Kong and the Promotion of Lead Belly Mark Duffett 3. Colonel Parker and the Art of Commercial Exploitation: The Manager as Monster Mark Duffett 4. The Platformed Prometheus: Frankenstein and Glam Rock Jon Hackett 5. The Case of Mark Chapman: Extreme Fandom as Monstrosity? Mark Duffett 6. Exhuming the Gravediggaz: Gothic Hip Hop and Monster Capital Jon Hackett 7. Masculinity on Trial: Noir Désir and Perverse Narcissism Jon Hackett 8. ‘Jingle Jangle Man’: Jimmy Savile, Paedophilia and the Music Industry Mark Duffett References Endnotes Index

Mark Duffett is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Chester. He is known for the book Understanding Fandom (2013). Jon Hackett 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.

Reviews for Scary Monsters: Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music

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 Scary Monsters 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. * Andy Bennett, Professor, Griffith University, Australia * Scary Monsters 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, naive 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 Scary Monsters instead approaches the darker recesses and the dangerously romanticised excesses of popular music's 'monstrous masculine.' * Matt Hills, Professor of Media and Film, University of Huddersfield, UK *