All Outputs (46)

Mind usurps program : virtuality and the “new machine aesthetic” of electronic dance music (2016)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2016). Mind usurps program : virtuality and the “new machine aesthetic” of electronic dance music. In S. Whiteley, & S. Rambarran (Eds.), Oxford University Press Handbook of Music and Virtuality. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

This chapter outlines the changes in perceptions of Electronic Dance Music across the phase of the introduction of virtuality. The chapter argues that such music must be read in relation to its conception of its audience, and that the audience, often... Read More about Mind usurps program : virtuality and the “new machine aesthetic” of electronic dance music.

Desires for reality : radicalism and revolution in Western European film (2016)
Book
Halligan, B. (2016). Desires for reality : radicalism and revolution in Western European film. New York and London: Berghahn Books

Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film addresses a provocative and controversial period of European cinema: the high-tide of dissenting and militant film-making, of 1968, and its aftermath. This study offers an immers... Read More about Desires for reality : radicalism and revolution in Western European film.

Graffiti, nostalgia and the Libertines: A walk down “up the bracket alley” (2016)
Journal Article
Halligan, B. Graffiti, nostalgia and the Libertines: A walk down “up the bracket alley”. Manuscript submitted for publication

This article reflects on a visit to the site of the video shoot for The Libertines’ “Up the Bracket”, ten years after that shoot and in the wake of the disbanding of the group, and the ways in which an unofficial and subcultural heritage is manifest... Read More about Graffiti, nostalgia and the Libertines: A walk down “up the bracket alley”.

“My uterus doesn’t expel rape sperm” : SlutWalk and the activist legacy of the suffragettes (2016)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2016). “My uterus doesn’t expel rape sperm” : SlutWalk and the activist legacy of the suffragettes. In C. Rostvik, & E. Sutherland (Eds.), The Suffragette Legacy : How does the History of Feminism Inspire Current Thinking in Manchester. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Tory erotica: The sexual fantasies of the British noveau riche in the 1970s (2016)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. Tory erotica: The sexual fantasies of the British noveau riche in the 1970s. In A. Willis, & E. Atakav (Eds.), From Smut to Softcore: Sex and 1970s World Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert. In B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London: Bloombsury

Through her live arena performances, pop/R and B artist Beyoncé Knowles appears to promote a shiny, depthless feminism that mass audiences can embrace. This chapter will provide a critical analysis of her 2013-2014 arena concert tour, The Mrs Carter... Read More about Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert.

The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment (2015)
Book
(2015). B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might be said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, ex... Read More about The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment.

Intimate live girls (2015)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2015). Intimate live girls. In B. Halligan, N. Spelman, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The arena concert requires a particular type of liveness of performance in order to transcend impersonal mass entertainment. Liveness here looks to authenticity and happenstance, privileges personal communications and seeks to live in the moment, and... Read More about Intimate live girls.

Metrosexual (encyclopedia entry). The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of consumption and consumer studies (2015)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2015). Metrosexual (encyclopedia entry). The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of consumption and consumer studies. In D. Cook, & J. Ryan (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies. Wiley Blackwell

“Use/abuse/everyone/everything” : a dialogue on LA Plays Itself (2015)
Journal Article
Halligan, B., & Wilson, L. (2015). “Use/abuse/everyone/everything” : a dialogue on LA Plays Itself. https://doi.org/10.13110/framework.56.2.0299

Abstract: This critical dialogue addresses the pioneering queer pornographic film LA Plays Itself from a variety of vantage points. The dialogue initially considers the film in relation to comparable works of pornography around the era of the Summer... Read More about “Use/abuse/everyone/everything” : a dialogue on LA Plays Itself.

From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968 (2014)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2014). From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968. In S. Whiteley, & J. Sklower (Eds.), Countercultures and Popular Music (187-202). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574479

Publisher's description of book: ’Counterculture’ emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an essential new academ... Read More about From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968.

"({})": Raunch culture, third wave feminism and the vagina monologues (2014)
Journal Article
Halligan, B. (2014). "({})": Raunch culture, third wave feminism and the vagina monologues. Theory and Event, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2014.0007

DVD/Blu-Ray commentary for "The Sorcerers" (2014)
Digital Artefact
Halligan, B., & Armstrong, M. (2014). DVD/Blu-Ray commentary for "The Sorcerers". [commercial Blu-Ray/DVD]

Audio-commentary with Michael Armstrong of film and extras: The Sorcerers (Michael Reeves, 1967, Tigon Pictures).

Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991 (2013)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2013). Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991. In M. Goddard, B. Halligan, & N. Spelman (Eds.), Resonances : Noise and Contemporary Music. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

Publisher's description of book: Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or d... Read More about Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991.

The music documentary : acid rock to electropop (2013)
Book
(2013). B. Halligan, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The music documentary : acid rock to electropop. US and UK: Routledge

The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music document... Read More about The music documentary : acid rock to electropop.

The nostalgic mode of imperial legitimation: Silencing the subjects for the television coverage of royal events (2013)
Book Chapter
Silencing the subjects for the television coverage of royal events. In J. Labov, H. Hajrudin, & H. Popovic (Eds.), Alternatives in Culture: Critical Theory and Divergent Practices in Contemporary Society. TBA. Manuscript submitted for publication

Resonances : noise and contemporary music (2013)
Book
(2013). M. Goddard, B. Halligan, & N. Spelman (Eds.), Resonances : noise and contemporary music. New York and London: Continuum / Bloomsbury

Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage rock and punk, the thudding of rave, the feedback of shoegaze and post-rock, the bombast of thr... Read More about Resonances : noise and contemporary music.

Sshhh (2012)
Book Chapter
Cookney, D. (2012). Sshhh. In M. Goddard, B. Halligan, & P. Hegarty (Eds.), The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise (147-163). London: Continuum (Bloomsbury)

This chapter documents a process undertaken by the author in summer 2010. Submitted as part of the University of Salford’s MA Communication Design programme, the study resulted in a practice-based outcome – a compact disc of audio recordings housed w... Read More about Sshhh.

Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise (2012)
Book
(2012). B. Halligan, M. Goddard, & P. Hegarty (Eds.), Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise. London and New York: Continuum

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution. Thi... Read More about Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise.

‘As if from the sky’: Divine and secular dramaturgies of noise (2012)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2012). ‘As if from the sky’: Divine and secular dramaturgies of noise. In B. Halligan, M. Goddard, & N. Spelman (Eds.), Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise. London and New York: Continuum/Bloomsbury

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution.This wi... Read More about ‘As if from the sky’: Divine and secular dramaturgies of noise.