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White boys, white noise: masculinities and 1980s Indie guitar rock

Bannister, Dr MatthewBurns, Professor Lori(Series edited by)Hawkins, Professor Stan(Series edited by)
Part of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series series
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To what extent do indie masculinities challenge the historical construction of rock music as patriarchal?

This key question is addressed by Matthew Bannister, involving an in-depth examination of indie guitar rock in the 1980s as the culturally and historically specific production of white men.

Through textual analysis of musical and critical discourses, Bannister provides the first book-length study of masculinity and ethnicity within the context of indie guitar music within US, UK and New Zealand 'scenes'.

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Ashgate
0754688038 / 9780754688037
Ebook
01/11/2007
England
English
200 pages