Stan Hawkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 6301827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stan Hawkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hawkins |
| SIGNATURE | HAWKINS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘A Swarm of Sound’
This article explores the idea of audiovisual immersion through the portal of the virtual reality music video. Our focus falls on a close reading of Björk’s video, ‘Family’, which addresses questions of immersion in relation to user-experience, staging, and technological innovation. This article draws on the authors’ responses to the video by considering the implications of VR immersion in a new generation of music video productions. As part of t…
Introduction
Following the news of the death of Prince on 21 April 2016, it was not long before iconic buildings and landmarks around the world were lit up in purple as the world mourned. It was as if the color
The Right Amount of Odd”
In this music-analytic interpretation of two love songs from Prince’s Around the World in a Day album, we investigate the properties of groove, arrangement, and vocality, all of which contribute to the artist’s inimitable signature. With a disciplinary grounding in musicology, we demonstrate ways whereby musical features are associated with meaning in recorded songs. Underlying the approach is the notion that it is in the music where Prince’s ing…
Azealia Banks
During the 2010s a new generation of queer hip hop artists emerged, providing an opportunity to engage with a set of politics defined by art, fashion, lyrics and music. A leading proponent of this movement was Azealia Banks, the controversial rapper, artist and actress from New York. This study instigates a critical investigation of her performance strategies in the track and video, 'Chasing Time' (2014), offering up various perspectives that pro…
Pop Music and Easy Listening
The Sun, the Moon and Stars
“The sun, the moon and stars don’t seem as far as they did yesterday,” now that Prince has left Planet Earth. From his 23rd studio album, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic, this enchanting hook, from the
Remembering Sheila Whiteley
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Queerness in Pop Music
This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Boy George, Diana Ross, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Azealia Banks, Zebra Katz, Freddie Mercury, the Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, and many others. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality, which …
On Male Queering in Mainstream Pop
On first glance, it might seem that queer identities in mainstream pop culture have broken through the idea of sexual deviations and gender roles. The unmistakable images of lesbian and gay representation and queer signs are ubiquitous in many performative spaces, where such displays of otherness often represent a norm that is perceived more as performance than as a connection to sexual preferences. Just over fifteen years ago, to describe a pers…
You Rocked Our World, Michael
Remodeling Britney Spears
This article examines a range of perspectives and cluster of discourses that are informed by the reading of one single video, Toxic, performed by pop icon Britney Spears. In our investigation, we seek new directions for audiovisual analysis and attempt to explore the music text alongside symbolic meanings mediated by a video. Of particular interest are the intersection of characters played by the star with constructions of personal narrative, iss…
Perspectives in popular musicology
Scholars of popular music in the 1990s are increasingly aware that traditional musicology has failed to recognise commercial pop music as a legitimate academic area of study. Intransigence on the part of many Western music institutions towards recognising the field of popular music study is attributable to issues that have been heatedly debated and discussed in most disciplines of popular music study. Even withstanding the expansion of critical a…
Prince
Musically, it (Lovesexy) is probably the most complex and unconventional body of work he (Prince) has ever produced. The dense undergrowth of twists and disjunctures to which even the most structured songs are subjected brings to mind once again the extended jam rehearsal technique Prince has always favoured. (Hill 1989, p. 210
Prince
Musically, it (Lovesexy) is probably the most complex and unconventional body of work he (Prince) has ever produced. The dense undergrowth of twists and disjunctures to which even the most structured songs are subjected brings to mind once again the extended jam rehearsal technique Prince has always favoured. (Hill 1989, p. 210
Perspectives in popular musicology
Scholars of popular music in the 1990s are increasingly aware that traditional musicology has failed to recognise commercial pop music as a legitimate academic area of study. Intransigence on the part of many Western music institutions towards recognising the field of popular music study is attributable to issues that have been heatedly debated and discussed in most disciplines of popular music study. Even withstanding the expansion of critical a…
Azealia Banks
During the 2010s a new generation of queer hip hop artists emerged, providing an opportunity to engage with a set of politics defined by art, fashion, lyrics and music. A leading proponent of this movement was Azealia Banks, the controversial rapper, artist and actress from New York. This study instigates a critical investigation of her performance strategies in the track and video, 'Chasing Time' (2014), offering up various perspectives that pro…
The Sun, the Moon and Stars
“The sun, the moon and stars don’t seem as far as they did yesterday,” now that Prince has left Planet Earth. From his 23rd studio album, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic, this enchanting hook, from the
Remodeling Britney Spears
This article examines a range of perspectives and cluster of discourses that are informed by the reading of one single video, Toxic, performed by pop icon Britney Spears. In our investigation, we seek new directions for audiovisual analysis and attempt to explore the music text alongside symbolic meanings mediated by a video. Of particular interest are the intersection of characters played by the star with constructions of personal narrative, iss…
Prince
Musically, it (Lovesexy) is probably the most complex and unconventional body of work he (Prince) has ever produced. The dense undergrowth of twists and disjunctures to which even the most structured songs are subjected brings to mind once again the extended jam rehearsal technique Prince has always favoured. (Hill 1989, p. 210
Perspectives in popular musicology
Scholars of popular music in the 1990s are increasingly aware that traditional musicology has failed to recognise commercial pop music as a legitimate academic area of study. Intransigence on the part of many Western music institutions towards recognising the field of popular music study is attributable to issues that have been heatedly debated and discussed in most disciplines of popular music study. Even withstanding the expansion of critical a…
Remodeling Britney Spears
This article examines a range of perspectives and cluster of discourses that are informed by the reading of one single video, Toxic, performed by pop icon Britney Spears. In our investigation, we seek new directions for audiovisual analysis and attempt to explore the music text alongside symbolic meanings mediated by a video. Of particular interest are the intersection of characters played by the star with constructions of personal narrative, iss…
You Rocked Our World, Michael
On Male Queering in Mainstream Pop
On first glance, it might seem that queer identities in mainstream pop culture have broken through the idea of sexual deviations and gender roles. The unmistakable images of lesbian and gay representation and queer signs are ubiquitous in many performative spaces, where such displays of otherness often represent a norm that is perceived more as performance than as a connection to sexual preferences. Just over fifteen years ago, to describe a pers…
Queerness in Pop Music
This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Boy George, Diana Ross, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Azealia Banks, Zebra Katz, Freddie Mercury, the Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, and many others. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality, which …
The Sun, the Moon and Stars
“The sun, the moon and stars don’t seem as far as they did yesterday,” now that Prince has left Planet Earth. From his 23rd studio album, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic, this enchanting hook, from the
Remembering Sheila Whiteley
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Pop Music and Easy Listening
Azealia Banks
During the 2010s a new generation of queer hip hop artists emerged, providing an opportunity to engage with a set of politics defined by art, fashion, lyrics and music. A leading proponent of this movement was Azealia Banks, the controversial rapper, artist and actress from New York. This study instigates a critical investigation of her performance strategies in the track and video, 'Chasing Time' (2014), offering up various perspectives that pro…
Introduction
Following the news of the death of Prince on 21 April 2016, it was not long before iconic buildings and landmarks around the world were lit up in purple as the world mourned. It was as if the color
The Right Amount of Odd”
In this music-analytic interpretation of two love songs from Prince’s Around the World in a Day album, we investigate the properties of groove, arrangement, and vocality, all of which contribute to the artist’s inimitable signature. With a disciplinary grounding in musicology, we demonstrate ways whereby musical features are associated with meaning in recorded songs. Underlying the approach is the notion that it is in the music where Prince’s ing…
‘A Swarm of Sound’
This article explores the idea of audiovisual immersion through the portal of the virtual reality music video. Our focus falls on a close reading of Björk’s video, ‘Family’, which addresses questions of immersion in relation to user-experience, staging, and technological innovation. This article draws on the authors’ responses to the video by considering the implications of VR immersion in a new generation of music video productions. As part of t…
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