Stan Hawkins is Professor of Musicology at the University of Oslo and Adjunct Professor at the University of Agder. His research fields involve music analysis, popular musicology, gender studies and audiovisual theory. From 2010-2014 he led a Norwegian state-funded project, Popular Music and Gender in a Transcultural Context. He is also author of Settling the Pop Score (2002), The British Pop Dandy (2009), and co-author of Prince: The Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon (2011). His edited volumes include Music, Space & Place (2004), Essays on Sound & Vision (2007), Pop Music & Easy Listening (2011), and Critical Musicological Reflections (2012).

1. Setting the Stage: aesthetics, gender norms and temporality 2. Love - a very queer construct 3. 'In and Out': Games of Truth and the Confessional 4. Applause, Applause: Art into Pop 5. 'Talking blah blah': Camp into Queer 6. To be a boy? Masculinity and queer aesthetics 7. Futurity and Passion's Compulsion

This book investigates queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms to contribute to the corpus of scholarship in queer popular music studies. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality, which involves a creative interdisciplinary approach to musical interpretation. He advocates a model of analysis that involves both temporal-specific listening and biographic-oriented viewing. Music analysis is woven into this, illuminating aspects of parody, nostalgia, camp, naivety, masquerade, irony, and mimesis in pop music.