Disruptive divas : feminism, identity & popular music / Lori Burns and Mélisse Lafrance.

Author/creator Burns, Lori
Other author Lafrance, Mélisse.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2002.
Descriptionxix, 255 pages : music ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Feminism, identity & popular music
SeriesStudies in contemporary music and culture
Studies in contemporary music and culture. ^A691397
Contents A cultural studies to women and popular music / Mélisse Lafrance -- "Close readings" of popular song : intersections among sociocultural. musical and lyrical meanings / Lori Burns -- Tori Amos, "Crucify" (1991). The problems of agency and resistance in Tori Amos's "Crucify" / Mélisse Lafrance ; Musical agency : strategies of containment and resistance in "Crucify" / Lori Burns -- Courtney Love (Hole), Live through this (1994). Culture of injury : Courtney Love on violence against women and the patriarchal aesthetic / Meĺisse Lafrance ; Musical force : violence and resistance in "Violet" / Lori Burns -- Me'Shell Ndegéocello, "Mary Magdalene" (1996). Textual subversion : the narrative sabotage of race, gender and desire in the music of Me'Shell Ndegéocello / Mélisse Lafrance ; Revising the sexual "gaze" : musical attributions of power in "Mary Magdalene" / Lori Burns -- P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire? (1998). Terrains of trouble : P.J. Harvey and the topography of desire / Mélisse Lafrance ; The crafting of desire : musical voice and musical embodiment / Lori Burns.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index.
LCCN 2001019249
ISBN0815335539
ISBN0815335547 (pbk.)