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Author: Mary Celeste Kearney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0199359512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, imagery, technologies, and business practices. Additionally, it explores how rock culture, despite a history of regressive gender politics, has provided a place for musicians and consumers to experiment with alternate ways of being.
Author: Marion Leonard
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780754638629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeonard addresses core issues relating to gender, rock and the music industry through a case study of 'female-centred' bands from the UK and US performing so called 'indie rock' from the 1990s to the present day. Using original interview material with both amateur and internationally renowned musicians, the book further addresses the fact that the voices of musicians have often been absent from music industry studies. Leonard's central aim is to progress from feminist scholarship that has documented and explored the experience of female musicians, to presenting an analytic discussion of gender and the music industry. In this way, the book engages directly with a number of under-researched areas: the impact of gender on the everyday life of performing musicians; gendered attitudes in music journalism, promotion and production; the responses and strategies developed by female performers; the feminist network riot grrrl and the succession of international festivals it inspired under the name of Ladyfest.
Author: Philip Auslander
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780472068685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the many ways glam rock paved the way for new explorations of identity in terms of gender, sexuality, and performance
Author: Mina Carson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0813150108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a foreword by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Girls Rock! explores the many ways women have defined themselves as rock musicians in an industry once dominated and controlled by men. Integrating history, feminist analysis, and developmental theory, the authors describe how and why women have become rock musicians -- what inspires them to play and perform, how they write, what their music means to them, and what they hope their music means to listeners. As these musicians tell their stories, topics emerge that illuminate broader trends in rock's history. From Wanda Jackson's revolutionary act of picking up a guitar to the current success of independent artists such as Ani DiFranco, Girls Rock! examines the shared threads of these performers' lives and the evolution of women's roles in rock music since its beginnings in the 1950s. This provocative investigation of women in rock is based on numerous interviews with a broad spectrum of women performers -- those who have achieved fame and those just starting bands, those playing at local coffeehouses and those selling out huge arenas. Girls Rock! celebrates what female musicians have to teach about their experiences as women, artists, and rock musicians.
Author: Mimi Schippers
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780813530758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmploying the feminist insight that gender is a constantly shifting performance & not an essential quality related to sex, Schippers explores the gender roles, transgressions & assumptions of the men & women involved in the hard rock scene.
Author: Rosemary Lucy Hill
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-04
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 113755441X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a timely examination of the tension between being a rock music fan and being a woman. From the media representation of women rock fans as groupies to the widely held belief that hard rock and metal is masculine music, being a music fan is an experience shaped by gender. Through a lively discussion of the idealised imaginary community created in the media and interviews with women fans in the UK, Rosemary Lucy Hill grapples with the controversial topics of groupies, sexism and male dominance in metal. She challenges the claim that the genre is inherently masculine, arguing that musical pleasure is much more sophisticated than simplistic enjoyments of aggression, violence and virtuosity. Listening to women’s experiences, she maintains, enables new thinking about hard rock and metal music, and about what it is like to be a women fan in a sexist environment.
Author: Simon Reynolds
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780674802735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to look at rock rebellion through the lens of gender, The Sex Revolts captures the paradox at rock's dark heart--the music is often most thrilling when it is most misogynistic and macho. And, looking at music made by female artists, the authors ask: must it always be this way?
Author: Mary Celeste Kearney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0190297697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book of its kind, Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, lyrics, imagery, performances, instruments, and business practices. Additionally, it explores how rock culture, despite a history of regressive gender politics, has provided a place for musicians and consumers to experiment with alternate identities and ways of being. Drawing on feminist and queer scholarship in popular music studies, musicology, cultural studies, sociology, performance studies, literary analysis, and media studies, Gender & Rock provides readers with a survey of the topics, theories, and methods necessary for understanding and conducting analyses of gender in rock culture. Via an intersectional approach, the book examines how the gendering of particular roles, practices, technologies, and institutions within rock culture is related to discourses of race, sexuality, age, and class.
Author: Neil Nehring
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 1997-03-20
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1452249695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music. The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.
Author: Susan McClary
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781452906362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. ". . . this is a major book . . . [McClary's] achievement borders on the miraculous." The Village Voice"No one will read these essays without thinking about and hearing music in new and interesting ways. Exciting reading for adventurous students and staid professionals." Choice"Feminine Endings, a provocative 'sexual politics' of Western classical or art music, rocks conservative musicology at its core. No review can do justice to the wealth of ideas and possibilities [McClary's] book presents. All music-lovers should read it, and cheer." The Women's Review of Books"McClary writes with a racy, vigorous, and consistently entertaining style. . . . What she has to say specifically about the music and the text is sharp, accurate, and telling; she hears what takes place musically with unusual sensitivity."-The New York Review of Books
