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Misogyny, Toxic Masculinity, and Heteronormativity in Post-2000 Popular Music

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Popular music is by no means an understudied phenomenon. Indeed, there is a significant back catalogue of work in this area covering gender, sexuality, race, culture, musicology, psychology and philosophy, just to name a few. In particular, the area of popular music and gender and sexuality includes many significant and influential works. This focus on popular music is not unwarranted; it percolates into all aspects of our lives, from soundtracks in shows and films, to celebratory events such as parties, weddings and bonding ceremonies, funerals, christenings and naming ceremonies, even as a backing track while writing the introduction to a book on popular music. As an area of academic investigation, it has not reached saturation point, and in our view this point is unlikely to come as popular music is ever-changing and being updated and adapted to fit with the time it is produced within. It is both a mirror to our times and cultures, and a semiotic tool shaping our times and cultures; consequently, it continues to be relevant to all of us—whether we like it or not. The study of popular music must keep up with this ever-evolving and shifting phenomenon.

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Puckey, N. (2021). Introduction. In: Fosbraey, G., Puckey, N. (eds) Misogyny, Toxic Masculinity, and Heteronormativity in Post-2000 Popular Music. Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65189-3_1

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