The Pet Shop Boys and the Political (eBook, PDF)

Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society
Redaktion: Ashton, Bodie A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness to Thatcherite neoliberalism and the Cold War, this book explores the cultural and political impact of the band and offers a fascinating window into the late 20th and early 21st centuries. An archetypal 'gay band', it shows how their overt queerness influenced generations of LGBTQIA+ music lovers and artists alike.

Covering the full oeuvre of the Pet Shop Boys; their albums, films, stage productions and collaborations, chapters in this collection show how their work is suffused with political commentary on the past and present covering themes as broad as queer identity, the HIV/AIDs epidemic, globalization and Brexit. It also places them within the context of their times and considers them as activists, authors, social commentators, political actors and personalities to better understand what influenced them. Bringing together a range of perspectives and disciplines, The Pet Shop Boys and the Political provides a unique and untapped insight into a formative pop band of the modern era that has mirrored and shaped society over the past forty years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350331594
• Artikelnr.: 69744061

Autorenporträt

Bodie A. Ashton is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Universität Erfurt, Germany. He is a historian of identity, particularly in queer history, and is the co-editor of Taking Bodies Vol II (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Introduction
Bodie A. Ashton
(Universität Erfurt
Germany) Part I It's All About Change
It's a Metamorphosis: The Personal-Political 1. Che Guevara and Debussy to a Disco Beat: Intellectualism and the Pet Shop Boys
Antares Russell Leask
(North Virginia Community College
USA) 2. The End of the West: Community and Chorus in Pet Shop Boys since 'Go West'
Adrian Daub
(Stanford University
USA) 3. He Dreamed of Machines: Queer Heritage and the Pet Shop Boys' Turing Test
Bodie A. Ashton
(Universität Erfurt
Germany) Part II Blaming the Colour TV: Neoliberal and Capitalist Critique 4. Buying and Selling Your History: Navigating the Ruins of Neoliberalism with Tennant and Lowe
Jonathan Dean
(University of Leeds
UK) 5. The Currency We Spent: The Pet Shop Boys and the Actualisation of Thatcherite Economics
Stephanie Polsky
(Goldsmiths University of London
UK) 6. Moscow or Manderley? Spectrality and Sovietism in the Pet Shop Boys' Oeuvre
Carolin Isabel Steiner (University of Applied Sciences Mittweida
Germany) Part III We Came from Outer Space: Siting and Spatiality 7. "All that Swinging Sixties. It Never Did Anyone Any Good
Did It?" The Pet Shop Boys and the Scandal of the Profumo Affair
Christopher Spinks (University of East Anglia
UK) 8. Go West
Young Band
Torsten Kathke (Johannes-Guttenberg-Universität Mainz
Germany) Part IV We're the Pet Shop Boys: Metanarrativity and Manifestations 9. It's a Sin: Religious Imagery and Queer Identities in It Couldn't Happen Here
Lisa-Marie Pöhland (Technische Universität Chemnitz
Germany) 10. What Have I Done to Deserve This? Personal
Professional
and Political Representations in Smash Hits during the 'Imperial Phase' (1986-1988)
Lexi Webster (Manchester Metropolitan University
UK) 11. You've Been Around but You Don't Look Too Rough: The Pet Shop Boys as Legacy Artists
Abby S. Waysdorf (Universiteit Utrecht
The Netherlands) 12. It's (Not) Obvious: Queerness and Queer Identities Pre- and Post- Bilingual
Bodie A. Ashton (Universität Erfurt
Germany) and Carolin Isabel Steiner (University of Applied Sciences Mittweida
Germany)