Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

by SheilaWhiteley (Editor)

Synopsis

Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who include Mavis Beayton, Stella Bruzzi, Sara Cohen, Sean Cubitt, Keith Negus and Will Straw, debate how popular music performers, subcultures, fans and texts construct and deconstruct `masculine' and `feminine' identities. Using a wide range of case studies, from Mick Jagger to Riot Grrrls, they demonstrate that there is nothing `natural', permanent or immovable about the regime of sexual difference which governs society and culture.
Sexing the Groove also includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography for further reading and research into gender and popular music.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 390
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02 Oct 1997

ISBN 10: 0415146712
ISBN 13: 9780415146715

Media Reviews
[Contains] kernals of insight..
- Entertainment Weekly
Lively writing on pop music and gender..
- Inquirer, Philadelphia
... an excellent, much-needed book and would make an excellent gift for any rock musician/women's studies students in your life.
- Feminist Bookstore News
A good reference tool for the aspiring music scholar and as such, a sound basis for ever-continuing exploration into the nature of gender in popular music.
- Austin Chronicle
... a well-written theory text.
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