From Men to Boys

McLaughlin, N; McLoone, Martin

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“…This is highly apparent in the context of music where, as McLaughlin and McLoone 29 note, the Irish are generally seen by the British press as 'too alike for difference to matter', except when it comes to oversimplistic stereotypes. Thus, Irish musicians are thrust into a 'liminal zone', 30 where their difference is often overlooked (e.g. described as 'English' or 'British' rather than 'Irish') or they are confined to narrow definitions of Irishness (e.g.…”

Section: Stereotypes Ireland and The Music Press: A Postcolonial Pers...mentioning

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'Rory Gallagher's Leprechaun Boogie': Irish Stereotyping in the International Music Press

O’Hagan¹

2023

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This paper seeks to explore the presence of Irish stereotyping in the international music press using a case study of the Irish blues rock musician Rory Gallagher. Using a dataset of 600 articles about Gallagher published between 1968 and 1998, it draws upon a combination of corpus and thematic analysis to identify frequently occurring Irish stereotypes and how they were used to describe him, embedding arguments in postcolonial theory, particularly the work of Homi K. Bhabha. The analysis identifies five major themes—the Irish as violent troublemakers; the Irish as heavy drinkers; the ‘Irish’ way of talking; the Irish as ‘dumb Paddys’; Irish folklore and traditional ways of life—highlighting the different roles into which Gallagher was unwillingly cast by the music press. These references often wrapped Irish prejudice in a cloak of fun and frivolity, which made it seem harmless and trivial. However, such disparagement humour fostered discrimination by moulding (negative) public opinion of what it meant to be Irish at a time when Anglo-Irish tensions were already high and ignored the deeply emotional impact of the Northern Irish conflict on Gallagher. It also took attention away from Gallagher’s music and, in doing so, downplayed the important contribution he made to the world of blues and rock. Keywords: Rory Gallagher; music press; Irish; Ireland; stereotypes; disparagement humour; postcolonialism

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Section: Stereotypes Ireland and The Music Press: A Postcolonial Pers...mentioning

confidence: 99%

'Rory Gallagher's Leprechaun Boogie': Irish Stereotyping in the International Music Press

O’Hagan¹

2023

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Stereotypes in media representations of boy bands and their fans

Coleman

Lyons

2023

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Boy bands have long been disparaged in music journalism, in part because of their association with teenage and prepubescent girls who are their primary fans. This study uses media stereotypes of musicians and their fans to see how the interplay of age and gender among these two constituencies is associated with negative stereotyping in music journalism. This study fills a gap in scholarship with a quantitative comparison of how modern boy bands and their fans are stereotypically portrayed compared to non-boy bands and their fanbases in a generalizable way. A content analysis of UK and U.S. music journalism from 2010 to 2015 finds that young women music fans continue to be stereotyped, and that boy bands are diminished through stereotypes that are gendered feminine, most prominently about their age and youth, authenticity of the music, and innocent sexuality. However, the boy bands were not diminished through feminine tropes more closely aligned with women fans, such as with the use of emotional language. Being young and male does not automatically mean marginalization and stereotyping, however – the young men in the non-boy bands were consistently referred to in non-stereotypical ways.

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From Men to Boys

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'Rory Gallagher's Leprechaun Boogie': Irish Stereotyping in the International Music Press

'Rory Gallagher's Leprechaun Boogie': Irish Stereotyping in the International Music Press

Stereotypes in media representations of boy bands and their fans

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