ISBN:
9781441149053
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (164 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Vallee, Mickey Rancid Aphrodisiac : Subjectivity, Desire, and Rock 'n' Roll
DDC:
306.48426
Keywords:
Rock music -- Psychological aspects.;Rock music -- Social aspects -- History.;Rock music -- History and criticism
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Rock music -- Psychological aspects
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Rock music -- Social aspects -- History
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Rock music -- History and criticism
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Felt, Not Perceived -- Medium of desire -- Filth 'n' feeling -- 1. "The One with the Waggly Tail": Even 'n' Emergence -- Even 'n' Emergence -- The specular image of the idol -- The Rebel quilt -- A rhythm that binds -- The terrors of the backbeat -- 2. The Backdoor of Desire -- Soiling the seafood store -- Animality and the elementary cell -- Timbre and the "real world" -- Timbres of denial -- Protecting the children -- 3. Backbeat, Echo, and the Other without the Other -- Vocal dis-identification -- Anarchic desire -- The rancid aphrodisiac of cretinous goons -- Conclusion: Affect and the Medium of the Real -- Mobilizing the medium of desire -- The medium of prosthetic vocality -- Movement, rest, repeat -- Affect 'n' Other -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
It has been sixty years since Rock 'n' Roll exploded into the mainstream, yet we remain limited in our understanding of how its bawdy excesses absorbed into the annals of mass popularity in such a short amount of time. Mickey Vallee asks: what if the Rock 'n' Roll eruption was nothing less than postwar consumer capitalism at its very best, precisely because it was taken as its very worst? Vallee explores the emergence of Rock 'n' Roll's from an entirely new theoretical disposition in order to answer this question, drawing mainly from Lacanian cultural psychoanalysis to reveal that Rock 'n' Roll was far more conformist than we are generally led to believe; namely, that it was conformist with emerging liberal principles of freedom from the tyranny of the state. Vallee supports this proposition with detailed analyses of familiar (and not-so-familiar) characters and texts in Rock 'n' Roll to suggest that the disruption of our symbolic economy was symptomatic of a new cultural logic of economic freedom. While not denying Rock 'n' Roll's role in the pre-civil rights movement, Vallee refuses the possibility to deny that Rock 'n' Roll's symbolic efficacy ultimately coordinated a neoliberal foundation to the ideology of individualism in its rhythm, instrumentation, lyrics, and vocals, where its power was at its most effective and affective
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