Rock Military Style: Motivations Behind the Military Look of 1960s Rock Musicians
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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."
Translated title of the contribution | Rock Militær Stil: Motivationer bag militær-looket hos 1960ernes rock musikere |
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Original language | English |
Title of host publication | Nordic Fashion Studies |
Editors | Peter McNeil, Louise Wallenberg |
Number of pages | 21 |
Place of Publication | Stockholm |
Publisher | Axl Books |
Publication date | 2012 |
Pages | 271-291 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789197859899 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
- Faculty of Humanities
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