Oh Boy!: Masculinities and Popular Music

Oh Boy! is the first serious study of how forms of masculinity are negotiated, constructed, represented and addressed in popular music texts and practices.

Author: Freya Jarman-Ivens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/25/2007
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.97w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780415978217

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 230
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1169

About the Author

Freya Jarman-Ivens is a lecturer in music at the University of Liverpool. She received her PhD from the University of Newcastle in 2006, and her thesis explored ways in whcih identity is fragmented in late twentieth-century popular music, especially through the use of the voice. Her research interests include queer theory and performativity, psychoanalytic theory, and discourses of technology and musical production. Dr. Jarman-Ivens works on a wide range of musical material, including easy listening, alternative rock, and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera. Her teaching ranges from popular music analysis to the musical construction of character in the Austro-German operatic canon.