Those Days Are Gone Forever
Steely Dan’s Grumpy Old White Guys’ Blues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21836432 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Fellezs (Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-286 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rock Music Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-1159 • E-ISSN: 1940-1167 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19401159.2022.2008164 |
| OpenAlex | W3216201817 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Steely Dan has always been a grumpy old guy’s band. In this essay, I listen to the ways in which Becker and Fagen turn their critical misandry on middle-aged American boomer generation males, adrift in vats of self-pity, marinating in melancholy and regret, and fermenting inexorably into elderly obsolescence. The duo masked their baleful assessment of white masculinist anxieties in music which blended jazz and rock sensibilities painstakingly polished to a smooth glossy aural sheen – all of which articulated an adultification of rock music culture in the 1970s
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Blues · Jazz · Literature · Obsolescence · Pity · Regret · Visual arts · Computer Science · Diverse Music Education Insights · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Geology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |