Resilience & Melancholy : Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Sweet Nothing; 2. Resilience; 3. Biopolitics; 4. MRWaSP; 5. Melancholy; 6. Siren Songs; Chapter 1: Hearing Resilience; 1. Soars, Drops, Stutters: Some features of EDM-pop; 2. The Resilient Noisiness of Neoliberal Pop; Chapter 2: Into the Death; 1. Death as Negation or An-Arche; 2. Death as Divestment or Non-Resilience; 3. Taking MIDIjunkies Into the Death; 4. Bending the Circuits of Biopolitical Life; Chapter 3: Look, I Overcame!; 1. Good Girls Are Resilient; 2. MRWaSP Visualization. 3. Watch Beyonce Overcome: 'Video Phone" and MRWaSP Visualization4. Q: Are We Not Human Capital? A: We Are Diva; Chapter 4: (Little) Monsters & Melancholics; 1. Gaga's Post-Goth Resilience; 2. Rihanna's Melancholic Damage; Conclusion: Alternatives & Adaptations; 1. Bad Investments; 2. Post-Soar Biopolitics: We Can't Stop; Notes; Bibliography