Stan Hawkins
British musicologist and composer employed at University of Oslo, Norway, since 1995. Professor in Musicology. Also holds an adjunct professorship (20% position) at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. Following on from his BMus, and MA (in South Africa and Germany, respectively), he went on to take a PhD at York University, UK (1983-1987). Took up an appointment at Salford University, Manchester, in 1988, where he helped develop the first BA in Popular Music & Recording in the UK. In 1992 founded the Popular Music Research Unit at Salford. From 1991-1994 he was Chair of the UK Branch of IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music). In 1995 accepted a post offer at the University of Oslo and moved to Norway. is Professor at the University of Oslo and University Agder, Norway. He has published widely on popular music, culture, sexuality, and identity, and is author of 'Settling the Pop Score' (2002/2017), T'he British Pop Dandy' (2009/2016), 'Prince: The Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon' (co-author Sarah Niblock, 2011/2013), and 'Queerness in Pop Music' (2016). Edited volumes include 'Music, Space and Place' (co-editors Sheila Whiteley and Andy Bennett) (2005/2017), 'Essays on Sound and Vision' (co-editor John Richardson) (2007), 'Pop Music & Easy Listening' (2011), 'Critical Musicological Reflections' (2012/2016), 'The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender' (2017), and 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis' (co-editor Lori Burns) (2019). Hawkins has also edited special editions on Michael Jackson, Popular Music and Society (co-editor Susan Fast) (2012), David Bowie, Contemporary Music Review (2018), and Prince, Popular Music and Society (co-editor Anne Danielsen) (2020). In 2017 he was elected life academy member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
For further details check homepage stanhawkins.net/ and in 2020 a festschrift of essays in his honor was published by Routledge, 'Popular Musicology and Identity' (eds. Hansen, Askerøi and Jarman), including chapters by prominent scholars, McClary, Straw, Scott, Burns, Bradby, to name a few. See: https://www.routledge.com/Popular-Musicology-and-Identity-Essays-in-Honour-of-Stan-Hawkins/Hansen-Askeroi-Jarman/p/book/9781138322882
For further details check homepage stanhawkins.net/ and in 2020 a festschrift of essays in his honor was published by Routledge, 'Popular Musicology and Identity' (eds. Hansen, Askerøi and Jarman), including chapters by prominent scholars, McClary, Straw, Scott, Burns, Bradby, to name a few. See: https://www.routledge.com/Popular-Musicology-and-Identity-Essays-in-Honour-of-Stan-Hawkins/Hansen-Askeroi-Jarman/p/book/9781138322882
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Important discourses are explored concerning national culture and identity, as well as how identity is constructed through the exchanges that occur between displaced peoples of the world's many diasporas. Music helps to articulate a shared sense of community among these dispersed people, carving out spaces of freedom which are integral to personal and group consciousness. A specific focal point is the rap and hip hop music that has contributed towards a particular sense of identity as indigenous resistance vernaculars for otherwise socially marginalized minorities in Cuba, France, Italy, New Zealand and South Africa. New research is also presented on the authorial presence in production within the domain of the commercially driven Anglo-American music industry. The issue of authorship and creativity is tackled alongside matters relating to the production of musical texts themselves, and demonstrates the gender politics in pop. "
Through the interpretation of aspects of the compositional design and musical structures of songs by these pop artists, Hawkins suggests ways in which stylistic and technical elements of the music relate to identity formation and its political motivations. Settling the Pop Score examines the role of irony and empathy, the question of gender, race and sexuality, and the relevance of textual analysis to the study of popular music. Interpreting pop music within the framework of musicology, Hawkins helps us to understand the pleasure so many people derive from these songs.
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