| Description |
1 online resource |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture examines the relationship between geek culture and popular music, tracing a history from the late 1960s to the present day. This collection of essays explores the evolution of "geek rock" from songs about cars and girls to monster movies, outer space, and what it means to be "white and nerdy." |
| Contents |
1. Frank Zappa: Godfather of Geek Rock / Alex DiBlasi -- 2. Taste, Kitsch, and Geek Rock: A Multiple Modernities View / Martina Topic -- 3. Futurists and New Traditionalists: The Antagonistic Critique of Devo and Italian Futurism / Ian Steinberg -- 4. Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Geek Rock: Haustor and Darko Rundek / Julijana Zhabeva-Papazova -- 5. They Might Be Lacanian: They Might Be Giants, Jacques Lacan, and the Rhetoric of Geek Rock / Victoria Willis -- 6. "A Very Subtle Joke": T.S. Eliot, J.D. Salinger, and the Puer Aeternus in God Shuffled His Feet / Paul Alexander Cantrell -- 7. "Fuck Me, I'm Twee": Performing Gender and Age in Twee Pop / Caroline Gates-Shannon -- 8. Man [Seeking] Astro-man?: Nouveau Surf Rock and the Futuristic-Past Nostalgic / Shannon Finck -- 9. The Geek's Guide to Love: Knowledge and Failure in the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs / Nadav Appel. |
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10. "My God, What an Infantile Gesture": The Mountain Goats as Emblematic of Geek Rock's Relationship with the Authentic / Taylor Peters -- 11. "Now It's Time for a Little Braggadocio": Nerdcore Rap, Race, and the Politics of Appropriation / Chris Russell. |
| Subject |
Rock music -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Rock music. (OCoLC)fst01099204
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
DiBlasi, Alex, 1987-
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Willis, Victoria, 1977-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781322064444 |
| ISBN |
9781442229761 (electronic book) |
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