Resilience & melancholy
Subtitle: pop music, feminism, neoliberalism
By: Robin James
Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Winchester, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781782795988
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Popular music; Feminism and music; Social aspects; Feminist theory; Feminism; Neoliberalism
Other titles: Resilience and melancholy
Description: Reading contemporary pop music - Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Calvin Harris - with and against political philosophers like Michel Foucault, feminists like Patricia Hill Collins, and media theorists like Steven Shaviro, 'Resilience & Melancholy' shows how resilience discourse manifests in both pop music and in feminist politics. In particular, it argues that resilient femininity is a post-feminist strategy for producing post-race white supremacy.
Notes: "Text copyright: Robin James 2014"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-223).