Settling the pop score : pop texts and identity politics / Stan Hawkins.

"The need for a critical approach to evaluating popular music lies at the heart of this book. Hawkins explores the relationships that exist between music, spectatorship and aesthetics through a series of case studies of pop artists from the 1980s and 1990s. Madonna, Morrissey, Annie Lennox, the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Hawkins, Stan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2002.
Series:Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Settling the pop score
  • I'll never be an angel: stories of deception in Madonna's music
  • Anti-rebel, lonesome boy: Morrisey in crisis?
  • Annie Lennox's Money can't buy it: masquerading identity
  • Call it performance, honey: the Pet Shop Boys
  • Subversive musical pleasures in The Artist (again) known as Prince.