Popular Musicology and Identity Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins

Popular Musicology and Identity paves new paths for studying popular music?s entwinement with gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, locality, and a range of other factors. The book consists of original essays in honour of Stan Hawkins, whose work has been a major influence on the musicological study of gender and identity since the early 1990s. In the new millennium, musicological approaches have proliferated and evolved alongside major shifts in the music industry and popular culture. Reflecting this plurality, the book reaches into a range of musical contexts, eras, and idioms to critically investigate the discursive structures that govern the processes through which music is mobilised as a focal point for negotiating and assessing identity. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, Popular Musicology and Identity accounts for the state of popular musicology at the onset of the 2020s while also offering a platform for the further advancement of the critical study of popular music and identity. This collection of essays thus provides an up-to-date resource for scholars across fields such as popular music studies, musicology, gender studies, and media studies.

Introduction: a musicology of popular music and identity

KAI ARNE HANSEN, EIRIK ASKERØI, AND FREYA JARMAN

1 The British dandy on the popular musical stage (1866–1915)

DEREK B. SCOTT

2 ‘She Said She Said’: the influence of feminine ‘voices’ on John Lennon’s music 32

MATTHEW BANNISTER AND MEGAN ROGERSON-BERRY

3 The classical closet

SUSAN MCCLARY

4 Perfect duet? Paradoxes of gender representation and mixedgender collaborations on the Billboard charts from 1955 to 2017

BARBARA BRADBY

5 The pleasure(s) of the pop text: subversion and theatricality in Cloroform and Tove Lo

JON MIKKEL BROCH ÅLVIK

6 ‘Everyone is a little bit gay’: LGBTIQ activism in Finnish pop music of the 21st century

SUSANNAVÄLIMÄKI

7 ‘Keeping it real’, ‘Keeping it dandy’? Male blackness and the popular music mainstream

ANNE DANIELSEN

8 Global success, identitarian performance, and Canadian popular music

WILL STRAW

9 ‘Very’ British: a pop musicological approach to the Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Always on My Mind’

SHARA RAMBARRAN

10 Pulp: a paradigm for perversion in pornosonic pop

KENNETH SMITH

11 Regina Spektor’s Small Bill$: the cute and the manic-zany as body-political strategies

JOHN RICHARDSON AND ANNA-ELENA PÄÄKKÖLÄ

12 Masculinity and the illness narrative in Pain of Salvation’s In the Passing Light of Day

LORI BURNS

Kai Arne Hansen is Associate Professor of Music at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Eirik Askerøi is Associate Professor of Music at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Freya Jarman is Reader in Music at the Department of Music, University of Liverpool.