%0 Journal Article %A Lasen Díaz, María Amparo %T Not just cock rock: Body and affective male experiences in dancing rock %D 2024 %@ 2530-898X %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/88313.2 %X This article proposes a sociological approach to rock music, taking into account affects, body and gender choreographies (Foster, 1998). Taking as the object of study the fact of listening and the particular form of embodied listening that is dance, I return to the approach and sensitivity of Richard Dyer’s (1979-2021) precursor analysis of the sexual, material and affective politics of rock and disco exploring some aspects of rock eroticism. Based on an analysis of in-depth interviews with adult men about their dance experiences, it is shown how rock music enables other erotic and political possibilities in addition to the display of phallocentrism and hegemonic masculinity, pointed out by Dyer %~