Music in Youth Culture: A Lacanian Approach [First Edition] 1403965307, 9781403965301, 9780230601390

Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Introduction: Aural/Oral Connections......Page 12
I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 16
1. Stuttering In-Between Deleuze and Lacan—Acts of Transposition......Page 18
Lacan Bashing/Bashing Lacan......Page 19
Sexuation: Beyond Sex/Gender......Page 24
Skin-Ego as BwO......Page 29
The Jouissance of the Death Drive......Page 35
Music as Sound of "Matter": The Clamor of Becoming......Page 39
Musical Transgressions: The Event......Page 44
The Virtual Body and the Real......Page 49
Ethical Paradoxes of the Deadly Jouissance of Postmodernity......Page 56
Forms of Jouissance......Page 59
Perversions and Hysterizations of the Music Scene......Page 62
On Castrati and Divas......Page 68
II: PERVERSIONS OF THE MUSIC SCENE THE BOYZ/BOIS/BOYS......Page 70
Death Row Records: Taking the Rap?......Page 72
Rap as Rhythmic Repetition of Resistance......Page 75
The Ambiguities of Rap's Style......Page 79
Racial Profile: The Public Enemy......Page 80
The Gangsta Rapper as Spectre......Page 83
The Sadomasochism of 2 Live Crew......Page 88
"I ain't nobody's bitch": Post-Oedipal Fallout......Page 91
Hitting the Target with Word-Bullets......Page 92
Stealing Back Jouissance: Crime as Law, Law as Crime......Page 93
Word Bullets into Golden Eggs: When Rap Turns Empty......Page 97
W(rap)ping Up Rap with Eminem......Page 100
The Schizophrenic Self: The "Real" Slim Shady......Page 103
Disturbing the Skin-Ego of Nü Metal: Obsessive Drives......Page 106
Forging an "Ugly" Aesthetic: The Grimace of the Joker......Page 109
KoRn's Real Kernel......Page 111
The Biting Noise of Nü Metal......Page 112
Freaks! The Searching Bullet......Page 116
The Bullet's Death Drive......Page 119
Decadence: A Time to Reap in the KoRn?......Page 120
Separation Woes: The Ambiguous Paternal Function......Page 122
Approaching Psychosis: Kurt Cobain's Grunge......Page 126
Suicide "Note"......Page 129
Authenticity as Sinthome: Musical Noise as Strange Attractor......Page 132
Serial Connections......Page 134
Addicted to Scream......Page 137
Columbine's Holy Wood: Third Strike and You're Out......Page 140
Unmasking Patricide: Wish Fulfillment Gone Astray......Page 146
Mass Murder and Serial Killers in Fantasy and RL......Page 150
Psychotic Delusions: Mass Murder as Media Glory......Page 154
School Tragedies of Overidentification: 15 Minutes of Twisted Fame......Page 157
Public Castrations: Boy Bands......Page 162
Making of the Band: Inverting the Truman Show......Page 165
More Heaven than Heaven......Page 169
American Idol 2: Pop Karaoke......Page 170
Stardom 101: Hiding in Front of the Obscene Underbelly......Page 174
Cloning Pop Stars for Global Success: Civilized Racism......Page 176
III: THE HYSTERIZATION OF THE MUSIC SCENE THE GURIZ/GIRLS/GRRRLS......Page 180
The Paradox of Dirty Virgin Divas......Page 182
The Dirty Other Feminine Jouissance......Page 185
The Sadean Fantasy of Sexual Equality......Page 187
Midriff Virgins: Spears and Company......Page 190
The Masquerade of Virginity......Page 192
Desire and the Law......Page 198
Conflicted Desire in Gurlz' Narratives......Page 200
The Perverted Maternal Superego......Page 203
Not Just One of the Bois: Being Wild and Free......Page 207
The Perversions of Tin(k)y Desire......Page 209
The Fourth Fetish......Page 210
13. The Good Witch-Bitch: Grrrl Power as the Desublimated Ugly Aesthetic......Page 214
What Do Grrrl's Want?......Page 215
Lipstick in Your Face: Preparing and then Losing Ground......Page 217
Fly Grrrls: The Erotic Full-Figured Body......Page 219
Femme Fatale as the Color of Red: Shirley Manson of Garbage......Page 221
From Red to Pink: Miss Undaztood's Schizophrenia......Page 224
Miss America Becomes Virginal!......Page 228
The "Storm" of the Ego Ideal: Teenage Girls' Loss of Self-esteem......Page 230
Wearing a Chastity "Belt": Nostalgic Virginity as a "Knockout" Punch......Page 235
The Recodified Veil of the Hejab......Page 238
Re-Veiling/Revealing the Courtly Lady......Page 240
Propping Up and Striping Down Paternity......Page 243
IV: INTERLUDE......Page 246
The Postmodern Groupie Today......Page 248
A Wry Look at the Fan(addict): Galaxy Quest......Page 251
Omega 13: Twisting Time and Space......Page 254
Punkbaby: Silke's Skin-Ego......Page 255
Silke's Tattoos......Page 258
A Drummer is Beating......Page 260
The Politics of the Skin-Ego: The Split-Screen Mirror......Page 262
16. Let's Rave not Rage! New Age Techno Hippies and Digital Electronica......Page 266
U(h)r Klang of the Real: The Techno Beat of the Machinic Fetus......Page 270
The Paradox of Rave's "Natural Technology"; Or Technology as Antitechnology......Page 273
Going Back into the Womb to Be Born Again: Posthuman Cyborgs......Page 274
CONCLUSIONS: AN ETHICS OF THE REAL......Page 278
17. An Ethical "Act" in the Real: A Brief Meditation to Close......Page 280
Coda: To Jeremy......Page 285
Notes......Page 288
Bibliography......Page 302
C......Page 314
E......Page 315
G......Page 316
M......Page 317
P......Page 318
S......Page 319
V......Page 320
Z......Page 321