The BriTish PoP DanDy The British Pop Dandy Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture sTan hawkins University of Oslo, Norway First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2009 stan hawkins stan hawkins has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data hawkins, stan The British pop dandy : masculinity, popular music and culture. – (ashgate popular and folk music series) 1. Male singers – Great Britain – Psychology 2. rock musicians – Great Britain – Psychology 3. Dandies – Great Britain – history – 20th century 4. Masculinity in popular culture – Great Britain – history – 20th century i. Title 782.4’2166’081’0941 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data hawkins, stan. The British pop dandy : masculinity, popular music and culture / stan hawkins. p. cm. — (ashgate popular and folk music series) includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-0-7546-5858-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Popular music—Great Britain —history and criticism. 2. Dandyism in music. 3. Masculinity in music. 4. sex role in music. 5. Popular music—social aspects—Great Britain. i. Title. ML3492.h38 2009 306.4’84240941—dc22 2008023034 isBn 9780754658580 (hbk) Contents General Editor’s Preface vii List of Dandies ix List of Illustrations xi List of Music Examples xiii Acknowledgments xvii Copyright Acknowledgments xix introduction 1 1 oh so Dandy! The Force of Peculiarity 15 2 Pop subjectivities: Poise and spectacle 37 3 Virtual insanity or the ‘real Thing’? 65 4 with a Twist of the straight: Dandyism and Gender revolt 93 5 singing the Body Fantastic: Corporeality and the Voice 121 6 Jack-a-Dandy: Masking, Virtuosity and Mannerism 153 Conclusion: ‘Let the boys all sing and the boys all shout …’ 183 Discography 191 Bibliography 197 Index 209 General editor’s Preface The upheaval that occurred in musicology during the last two decades of the twentieth century has created a new urgency for the study of popular music alongside the development of new critical and theoretical models. a relativistic outlook has replaced the universal perspective of modernism (the international ambitions of the 12-note style); the grand narrative of the evolution and dissolution of tonality has been challenged, and emphasis has shifted to cultural context, reception and subject position. Together, these have conspired to eat away at the status of canonical composers and categories of high and low in music. a need has arisen, also, to recognize and address the emergence of crossovers, mixed and new genres, to engage in debates concerning the vexed problem of what constitutes authenticity in music and to offer a critique of musical practice as the product of free, individual expression. Popular musicology is now a vital and exciting area of scholarship, and the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series presents some of the best research in the field. Authors are concerned with locating musical practices, values and meanings in cultural context, and may draw upon methodologies and theories developed in cultural studies, semiotics, poststructuralism, psychology and sociology. The series focuses on popular musics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is designed to embrace the world’s popular musics from acid Jazz to Zydeco, whether high tech or low tech, commercial or non-commercial, contemporary or traditional. Derek B. scott Professor of Critical Musicology University of Leeds, Uk List of Dandies Marc almond (1957) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of soft Cell adam ant (1954) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of adam and the ants Marc Bolan (1947–1977) – singer, songwriter, guitarist. Founder member of Tyrannosaurus rex David Bowie (1947) – singer, songwriter, producer and audio engineer Jarvis Cocker (1963) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of Pulp ray Davies (1944) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of The kinks Pete Doherty (1979) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of Babyshambles Paul Draper (1970) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of Mansun stephen Duffy (1960) – singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist Bryan Ferry (1945) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of roxy Music neil hannon (1970) – singer, songwriter, frontman for The Divine Comedy Justin hawkins (1975) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist and guitarist of The Darkness Mick Jagger (1943) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of The rolling stones Jay kay (1969) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of Jamiroquai steven Morrissey (1959) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of The smiths robert Palmer (1949–2003) – singer, songwriter and member of Power station robert smith (1959) – guitarist, songwriter and lead vocalist of The Cure rod stewart (1945) – singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of The Faces