Pop Masculinities - The Politics of Gender in Twenty-First Century Popular Music (Hansen Kai Arne (Associate Professor of Music Associate Professor of Music Inland Norway University))(Paperback / softback)

In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early twenty-first century. Drawing together perspectives from critical musicology, gender
studies, and adjacent scholarly fields, the book presents extended case studies of five well-known artists: Zayn, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and Take That. By directing particular attention to the ambiguities and contradictions that arise from these artists' representations of masculinity, Hansen argues that pop performances tend to operate in ways that simultaneously reinforce and challenge gender norms and social inequalities. Providing a rich
exploration of these murky waters, Hansen merges the interpretation of recorded song and music video with discourse analysis
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