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All the young dudes: educational capital, masculinity and the uses of popular music
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Branch, Andrew |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Since its emergence in the early seventies, glam rock has been theoretically categorised as a moment in British popular culture in which essentialist ideas about male gendered identity were rendered problematic for a popular music audience. Drawing on a Bourdieusian theoretical framework, the article argues that whilst this reading of glam is valid, insufficient attention has been given to an examination of the relevance of educational capital vis-a-vis the construction of self-identity in relation to glam. It is therefore concerned with raising questions about social class in addition to interrogating questions of gender. The article draws on the ethno-biographies of a sample of glam’s original working-class male fans; original interviews with musicians and writers associated with glam, as well as published biographical accounts. In doing so it contends that glam’s political significance is better understood as a moment in popular culture in which an educationally aspirant section of the male working-class sought to express its difference by identifying with the self-conscious performance of a more feminised masculinity it located in glam. |
| Starting Page | 25 |
| Ending Page | 44 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0261143011000444 |
| Volume Number | 31 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://repository.uel.ac.uk/download/7a14cb9f2ba6599f35712446f2f92dc1de1ca016f69b80b321177beac740082d/196525/branch%20glam%20roar%20copy.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143011000444 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
