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Music in Youth Culture
Jan Jagodzinski
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Description for Music in Youth Culture
Hardback. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JFC; JHBK; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Music in Youth Culture examines the fantasies of post-Oedipal youth cultures as displayed on the landscape of popular music from a post-Lacanian perspective. Jan Jagodzinski, an expert on Lacan, psychoanalysis, and education's relationship to media, 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. Music in Youth Culture also examines the postmodern 'fan (addict)', techno music, and pop music icons. Jagodzinski raises the Lacanian question of 'an ethics ... Read more
Music in Youth Culture examines the fantasies of post-Oedipal youth cultures as displayed on the landscape of popular music from a post-Lacanian perspective. Jan Jagodzinski, an expert on Lacan, psychoanalysis, and education's relationship to media, 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. Music in Youth Culture also examines the postmodern 'fan (addict)', techno music, and pop music icons. Jagodzinski raises the Lacanian question of 'an ethics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
Number of Pages
321
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403965301
SKU
V9781403965301
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About Jan Jagodzinski
Jan JAGODZINSKI is a Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Canada. Currently, he teaches visual art education and media education as well as curricular issues as they relate to postmodern concerns of gender politics, cultural studies, and the media-specifically film and television. He is author of many titles including: The Anamorphic I/i, Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays ... Read more
Reviews for Music in Youth Culture
"It is hard to think of a cultural phenomenon that is more emotionally compelling and socially significant, or less understood, than youth music and its attendant subcultures. It has long been a truism that rebellion is central to this music, but the deep and complex nature, the social and psychological roots, and the ethical, social, and political consequences of the ... Read more