Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity
- Submitting institution
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University of Central Lancashire
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 28649
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138647312
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The subject of pop masculinity has been marginalised in studies of popular music and its culture where there is a preponderance of texts exploring masculine identity in rock, rap and heavy metal. The book is the only extended academic study of boy bands within the context of the evolution of pop masculinity. It examines the subject from various directions, historical as well as cultural. Through an analysis of historical data, it provides a thoroughly researched history of male vocal harmony ensembles, positioning contemporary boy bands within the broad trajectory of twentieth and twenty first century pop music culture.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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