Queerness in Pop Music - Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality

This book investigates queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms to contribute to the corpus of scholarship in queer popular music studies. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality, which involves a creative interdisciplinary approach to musical interpretation. He advocates a model of analysis that involves both temporal-specific listening and biographic-oriented viewing. Music analysis is woven into this, illuminating aspects of parody, nostalgia, camp, naivety, masquerade, irony, and mimesis in pop music.