Who You Think I Am?: Masks in Pop Music - Couverture souple

Berlich, Sebastian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3662672510 ISBN 13 : 9783662672518

Editeur : Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 2023

Synopsis

Pop stars are close to us. In their songs, their pictures, their stories on Instagram. What we are looking for is an authentic impression. Real feelings on real faces. But what happens when they cover their face with a mask? Permanently, as a second face. The phenomenon can be found in the mainstream as well as in the underground. The mask does not break with the ideal of authenticity. Rather, depending on how it is staged, it refers to the most diverse discourses, can appear cool or grotesque, become a logo or create anonymity. The essay uses mainly two examples (Sido, Slipknot) to show how the mask constructs the persona of pop stars - and thus reveals structures of pop music.
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A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sebastian Berlich, born in 1991, is doing his doctorate in the Collaborative Research Centre "Transformations of the Popular" at the University of Siegen. He studied cultural poetics, art history and cultural studies in Münster and Saarbrücken. Texts on forms of seriality in Black Mirror, explosions in The Bridge On The River Kwai, and the mythical West Berlin of Kool Savas and Sido are available as part of anthologies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3662672510
• ISBN 13: 9783662672518
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 183
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