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Geek rock : an exploration of music and subculture /

Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture examines the relationship between geek culture and popular music, tracing a history from the late 1960s to the present day. This collection of essays explores the evolution of "geek rock" from songs about cars and girls to monster movies, o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: DiBlasi, Alex, 1987- (Editor ), Willis, Victoria, 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Frank Zappa: Godfather of Geek Rock / Alex DiBlasi
  • 2. Taste, Kitsch, and Geek Rock: A Multiple Modernities View / Martina Topic
  • 3. Futurists and New Traditionalists: The Antagonistic Critique of Devo and Italian Futurism / Ian Steinberg
  • 4. Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Geek Rock: Haustor and Darko Rundek / Julijana Zhabeva-Papazova
  • 5. They Might Be Lacanian: They Might Be Giants, Jacques Lacan, and the Rhetoric of Geek Rock / Victoria Willis
  • 6. "A Very Subtle Joke": T.S. Eliot, J.D. Salinger, and the Puer Aeternus in God Shuffled His Feet / Paul Alexander Cantrell
  • 7. "Fuck Me, I'm Twee": Performing Gender and Age in Twee Pop / Caroline Gates-Shannon
  • 8. Man [Seeking] Astro-man?: Nouveau Surf Rock and the Futuristic-Past Nostalgic / Shannon Finck
  • 9. The Geek's Guide to Love: Knowledge and Failure in the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs / Nadav Appel.
  • 10. "My God, What an Infantile Gesture": The Mountain Goats as Emblematic of Geek Rock's Relationship with the Authentic / Taylor Peters
  • 11. "Now It's Time for a Little Braggadocio": Nerdcore Rap, Race, and the Politics of Appropriation / Chris Russell.