Those Days Are Gone Forever: Steely Dan’s Grumpy Old White Guys’ Blues
2021; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/19401159.2022.2008164
ISSN1940-1167
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoSteely Dan has always been a grumpy old guy’s band. In this essay, I listen to the ways in which Becker and Fagen turn their critical misandry on middle-aged American boomer generation males, adrift in vats of self-pity, marinating in melancholy and regret, and fermenting inexorably into elderly obsolescence. The duo masked their baleful assessment of white masculinist anxieties in music which blended jazz and rock sensibilities painstakingly polished to a smooth glossy aural sheen – all of which articulated an adultification of rock music culture in the 1970s.
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