Music in Youth Culture: A Lacanian Approach

Music in Youth Culture examines the fantasies of post-Oedipal youth cultures as displayed on the landscape of popular music from a post-Lacanian perspective. Jan Jagodzinski, an expert on Lacan, psychoanalysis, and education's relationship to media, maintains that a new set of signifiers is required to grasp the sliding signification of contemporary 'youth'. He discusses topics such as the figurality of noise, the perversions of the music scene by boyz/bois/boys and the hysterization of it by gurlz/girls/grrrls. Music in Youth Culture also examines the postmodern 'fan (addict)', techno music, and pop music icons. Jagodzinski raises the Lacanian question of 'an ethics of the Real' and asks educators to re-examine 'youth' culture.

Author: J. Jagodzinski
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/21/2006
Pages: 321
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.40w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9781403965301

About the Author
Jan JAGODZINSKI is a Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Canada. Currently, he teaches visual art education and media education as well as curricular issues as they relate to postmodern concerns of gender politics, cultural studies, and the media-specifically film and television. He is author of many titles including: The Anamorphic I/i, Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art & Art Education, Pun(k) Deconstruction: Experifigural Writings in Art & Art Education, Pedagogical Desire, and Deconstructing the Oral Eye.