Music in youth culture : a Lacanian approach / Jan Jagodzinski.

Author/creator Jagodzinski, Jan, 1948-
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Descriptionx, 321 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Theoretical considerations -- Stuttering in-between Deleuze and Lacan-acts of transposition -- The figurality of noise and the silence of the death drive -- The uncanny figural voice -- Perversions of the music scene: the Boyz/Bois/Boys -- The perversions of gangsta rap: death drive and violence -- Gangsta sadomasochism: tails yo' good, heads yo' bad -- Plummeting the Gothic depths of the soul: Nü Metal and Its Beyond -- The "grunge" of punk-rock: Slacking Off -- Serial connections: the MM show -- Beyond the law: the anti slacker as mass murderer -- The new castrati: Men II Boys -- The hysterization of the music scene: The Gurlz/Girls/Grrrls -- Postmodern hysterics: Playing with the virginity card -- The dilemmas of Gurlz' desires: perverting the post-patriarchal order -- The good witch-bitch: grrrl power as the desublimated ugly aesthetic -- The new virginity: the nostalgic return of the veil -- Interlude -- The fan(addict): The sinthome of believing in the multiples of ONE -- Let's rave not rage! New age techno hippies and digital electronica -- An ethical "act" in the real: a brief meditation to close.
Abstract This book examines the fantasies of post-Oedipal youth cultures as displayed on the landscape of popular music from a post-Lacanian perspective. The author, drawing on the Lacanian psychoanalytic paradigm, maintains that a new set of signifiers is required to grasp the sliding signification of contemporary "youth". He discusses topics such as the figurality of noise, the perversions of the music scene by boyz/bois/boys and the hysterization of it by gurlz/girls/grrrls. This book also examines the postmodern "fan(addict)," techno music, and pop music icons. The author raises the Lacanian question of "an ethics of the Real" and also asks educators to re-examine "youth" culture for the 21st century.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.
LCCN 2005047696
ISBN1403965307
ISBN1403965315 (pbk.)