Rock Military Style: Motivations Behind the Military Look of 1960s Rock Musicians
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Rock Military Style : Motivations Behind the Military Look of 1960s Rock Musicians. / Langkjær, Michael Alexander.
Nordic Fashion Studies. ed. / Peter McNeil; Louise Wallenberg. Stockholm : Axl Books, 2012. p. 271-291.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Rock Military Style
T2 - Motivations Behind the Military Look of 1960s Rock Musicians
AU - Langkjær, Michael Alexander
N1 - Er også gjort tilgængeligt på Open Access
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - From Peter McNeil's 'Introduction', to the volume, pp. xxiii-xxiv: "Michael A. Langkjaer pursues a different style politics, that of "Rock Military Style": Motivations Behind the Military Look of 1960's Rock Musicians, with some Remarks Concerning the Ethical Dimension." Through a careful study of the wardrobe of Jimi Hendrix, Langkjaer unpacks the motives and meanings that lay behind the star's use of second-hand uniforms. What did it mean for young men opposed to war to wear such loaded symbols of militarism? "Assumptions about the motivations behind the donning of uniforms among rock-musicians, as well as among contemporary youth, must be re-examined," he argues, "and the field of inquiry widened." Langkjaer indicates his vexation with a certain type of cultural studies method that uses terms such as "transgressive" without paying any attention to the specifics of the modes or garments discussed there-under. His is an important methodological paper in which written visual sources are combined with a keen understanding of the spirit of the times, one suspects that Langkjaer enjoys very much."
AB - From Peter McNeil's 'Introduction', to the volume, pp. xxiii-xxiv: "Michael A. Langkjaer pursues a different style politics, that of "Rock Military Style": Motivations Behind the Military Look of 1960's Rock Musicians, with some Remarks Concerning the Ethical Dimension." Through a careful study of the wardrobe of Jimi Hendrix, Langkjaer unpacks the motives and meanings that lay behind the star's use of second-hand uniforms. What did it mean for young men opposed to war to wear such loaded symbols of militarism? "Assumptions about the motivations behind the donning of uniforms among rock-musicians, as well as among contemporary youth, must be re-examined," he argues, "and the field of inquiry widened." Langkjaer indicates his vexation with a certain type of cultural studies method that uses terms such as "transgressive" without paying any attention to the specifics of the modes or garments discussed there-under. His is an important methodological paper in which written visual sources are combined with a keen understanding of the spirit of the times, one suspects that Langkjaer enjoys very much."
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Uniforms
KW - Wardrobe
KW - Jimi Hendrix
KW - Fashion
KW - Transgressions of taboos
KW - Stylin'
KW - Détournement
KW - British Pop
KW - British Empire nostalgia
KW - 1960s Cinema & Fashin
KW - Peacock Revolution
KW - Performance Costume
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9789197859899
SP - 271
EP - 291
BT - Nordic Fashion Studies
A2 - McNeil, Peter
A2 - Wallenberg, Louise
PB - Axl Books
CY - Stockholm
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