Sexing the groove : popular music and gender / edited by Sheila Whitely.
| Other author | Whiteley, Sheila, 1941-2015, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. |
| Description | xxxvi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I. Rock music culture. Sizing up record collections: gender and connoisseurship in rock music culture / Will Straw -- Men making a scene: rock music and the production of gender / Sara Cohen -- Women and the electric guitar / Mavis Bacon -- (R)evolution now? Rock and the political potential of gender / Norma Coates -- Part II. Masculinities and popular music: Little red rooster vs. the Honky tonk woman: Mick Jagger, sexuality, style and image / Sheila Whiteley -- Bruce Springsteen and masculinity / Gareth Palmer -- The Pet Shop Boys: musicology, masculinity and banality / Stan Hawkins -- Part III. A time of growth and change: femininities and popular music. Can a fujiyama mama be the female Elvis? The wild, wild women of rockabilly / David Sanjek -- Female identity and the woman songwriter / Charlotte Greig -- Sinéad O'Connor, musical mother / Keith Negus -- Mannish girl: k.d. lang, from cowpunk to androgyny / Stella Bruzzi -- The missing links: riot grrl- feminism- lesbian culture / Mary Celeste Kearney -- 'Rebel girl, you are the queen of my world': Feminism, 'subculture' and grrl power / Marion Leonard -- Part IV. Music, image and identity. Seduced by the sign: an analysis of of the textual links between sound and image in pop videos / Sheila Whiteley -- Feeling and fun: romance, dance and the performing male body in the Take That videos / Paul McDonald -- Rolling and tumbling: digital erotics and the culture of narcissism / Sean Cubitt. |
| Abstract | This book 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. |
| Local note | EMUSIC- 305140007405 |
| Bibliography note | Discography: pages 351-353. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-335) and index. |
| LCCN | 97005416 |
| ISBN | 0415146704 |
| ISBN | 0415146712 (pbk) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3470 .S46 1997 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |