Published Books by Dr. jan jagodzinski

 Music in Youth Culture: A Lacanian Approach (2005)

 Table of Contents

Introduction: Aural / Oral Connections

¥°. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS

1. Stuttering In-Between Deleuze and Lacan - Acts of Transposition
Lacan Bashing / Bashing Lacan
Sexuation: Beyond Sex / Gender
Skin-Ego as BwO
The Jouissance of the Death Drive
Music as Sound of "Matter": The Clamor of Becoming

2. The Figurality of Noise and the Silence of the Death Drive
Musical Transgressions: The Event
The Virtual Body and the Real

3. The Uncanny Figural Voice
Ethical Paradoxes of the Deadly Jouissance of Postmodernity
Forms of Jouissance
Perversions and Hysterizations of the Music Scene
On Castrati and Divas


 ¥±. PERVERSIONS OF THE MUSIC SCENE: THE BOYZ / BOIS / BOYS

4. The Perversions of Gangsta Rap: Death Drive and Violence
Death Row Records: Taking the Rap?
Rap as Rhythmic Repetition of Resistance
The AMbiguities of Rap's Style
Racial Profile: The Public Enemy
The Gangsta Rapper as Spectre


5. Gangsta Sadomasochism: Tails Yo' Good, Heads Yo' Bad
The Sadomasochism of 2 Live Crew
"I ain't nobody's bitch": Post-Oedipal Fallout
Hitting the Target with Word-Bullets
Stealing Back Jouissance: Crime as Law, Law as Crime
Word Bullets into Golden Eggs: When Rap Turns Empty
W(rap)ping Up Rap with Eminem
The Schizophrenic Self: The "Real" Slim Shady


6. Plummeting the Gothic Depths of the Soul: Nu Metal and its Beyond
Disturbing the Skin-Ego of Nu Metal: Obsessive Drives
Forging and "Ugly" Aesthetic: The Grimace of the Joker
Ko¬Án"s Real Kernel
The Biting Noise of Nu Metal
Freaks! The Searching Bullet
The Bullet's Death Drive
Decadence: A Time to Reap in the Ko¬Án?


7. The "Grunge" of Punk-Rock: Slacking Off
Separation Woes: The Ambiguous Paternal Function
Approaching Psychosis: Kurt Cobain's Grunge
Suicide "Note"
Authenticity as Sinthome: Musical Noise as Strange Attractor


8. Serial Connections: The MM Show
Serial Connections
Addicted to Scream
Columbine's Holy Wood: Third Strike and You're Out


9. Beyond the Law: The Anti-Slacker as Mass Murderer
Unmasking Patricide: Wish Fulfillment Gone Astray
Mass Murder and Serial Killers in Fantasy and RL
Psychotic Delusions: Mass Murder as Media Glory
School Tragedies of Overidentification: 15 Minutes of Twisted Fame


10. The New Castrati: Men ¥± Boys
Public Castrations: Boy Bands
Making of the Band: Inverting the Truman Show
More Heaven than Heaven
American Idol 1: Pop Karaoke
Stardom 101: Hiding in Front of the Obscene Underbelly
Cloning Pop Stars for Global Success: Civilized Racism

 

¥². THE HYSTERIZATION OF THE MUSIC SCENE: THE GURLZ / GIRLS / GRRRLS

11. Postmodern Hysterics: Playing with the Virginity Card
The Paradox of Dirty Virgin Divas
The Dirty Other Feminine Jouissance
The Sadean Fantasy of Sexual Equality
Midriff Virgins : Spears and Company
The Masquerade of Virginity


12. The Dilemmas of Gurlz' Desires: Perverting the Post-Patriarchal Order
Desire and the Law
Conflicted Desire in Gurlz' Narratives
The Perverted Maternal Superego
Not Just One of the Bois: Beign Wild and Free
The Perversions of Tin(k)y Desire
The Fourth Fetish


13. The Good Witch-Bitch: Grrrl Power as the Desublimated Ugly Aesthetic
What Do Grrrl's Want?
Lipstick in Your Face: Preparing and then Losing Ground
Fly Grrrls: The Erotic Full-Figured Body
Femme Eatale as the Color of Red: Shirley Manson of Garbage
From Red to Pink: Miss Undaztood's Schizophrenia


14: The New Virginity: The Nostalgic Return of the Veil
Miss America Becomes Virginal!
The "Storm" of the Ego Ideal: Teenage Girls' Loss of Self-esteem
Wearing a Chastity "Belt": Nostalgic Virginity as a "Knockout" Punch
The Recodified Veil of the Hejab
Re-Veiling / Revealing the Courtly Lady
Propping Up and Striping Down Paternity

 

¥³. Interlude

15. The Fan(addict): The Sinthome of Believing in the Multiples of ONE
The Postmodern Groupie Today
A Wry Look at the Fan(addict): Galaxy Quest
Omega 13: Twisting Time and Space
Punkbaby: Silke's Skin-Ego
Silke's Tatoos
A Drummer is Beating
The Politics of the Skin-Ego: The Split-Screen Mirror


16. Let's Rave not Rage! New Age Techno Hippies and Digital Electronica
U(h) r Klang of the Real: The Technol Beat of the Machinic Fetus
The Paradox of Rave's "Natural Technology"; Or Technology as Antitechnology
Going Back into the Womb to Be Born Again: Posthuman Cyborgs


17. An Ethical "Act" in the Real: A Brief Meditation to Close Coda: To Jeremy

 

Notes

Bibliography

Index


Last updated on May 26, 2006

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