From Men to Boys: Masculinity, Politics and the Irish Boy Band

Martin McLoone; Noel McLaughlin

doi:10.1057/9781137300249

From Men to Boys: Masculinity, Politics and the Irish Boy Band

Martin McLoone, Noel McLaughlin

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Abstract

This paper considers the way in which the Irish boy band of the 1990s mounted a challenge to dominant discourses in Ireland around gender and sexuality, despite the fact that the they consitute the most critically derided form of music and represent one of the most commercial,'manufactured' and inauthentic aspect of Celtic Tiger Ireland.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Masculinity and Irish Popular Cultur: Tiger's Tales
Editors	Conn Holohan, Tony Tracy
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	61-74
ISBN (Print)	978 0-1 -137 -30023 - 2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300249
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 2014

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Irish popular culture
Masculinity
pop music

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