White boys, white noise [electronic resource] : masculinities and 1980s indie guitar rock / Matthew Bannister.
Series: Ashgate popular and folk music seriesPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.Description: xxvii, 200 pISBN:- 0754651886 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0754651908 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780754651888
- 9780754651901
- 781.66 22
- ML3534 .B316 2006eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-186) and index.
Introduction : white boys-- -- Reviewing theories and representations of masculinities -- Powerless power : masculine intellectualism and aesthetics -- What does it mean to be alternative? : indie guitar rock as a genre -- The singer or the song? : homosociality, genre and gender -- Someone controls electric guitar : indie and technologies -- What will I do if she dies? : music, misery and masculinities -- Conclusion : --white noise.
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