Rockin' out of the box : gender maneuvering in alternative hard rock / Mimi Schippers.

Author/creator Schippers, Mimi, 1964-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxviii, 209 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects
Rock music--Social aspects.
Rock music--Sex differences.

Variant title Rocking out of the box
Contents Gender and rock music: so what's new? -- The gender order of mainstream rock culture -- This is alternative hard rock: rock culture as gender maneuvering -- Gender maneuvering in face-to-face interaction -- The body in alternative hard rock -- Sexuality and gender maneuvering -- Feminist politics.
Abstract Given the long history of feminism and its contested place in popular culture, important, practical questions arise: What effect, if any, have feminist ideas and practices had on the lives of young men and women who grew up with them? How do these individuals negotiate the realities of gender in their daily lives? This book, employing the crucial feminist insight that gender is a constantly shifting performance and not an essential quality related to sex, explores the gender roles, assumptions, and transgressions of the men and women involved in the alternative hard rock scene. The author focuses on this sizable section of rock music both because it is widely inclusive of men and women and because it explicitly adopted feminism as its point of departure from mainstream music. She uses the innovative term gender maneuvering to explain her observations that gender and sexuality are negotiated and always changing features of social relations. This process, she demonstrates, operates as a cultural practice and as an individual strategy of resistance to socially prescribed gender roles. The author, who spent more than two years frequenting alternative hard rock clubs and concerts in Chicago, conducted extensive interviews with fans as well as musicians, including Ian MacKaye of Fugazi, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, Donita Sparks and Jennifer Finch of L7, Kat Bjelland and Lori Barbero of Babes in Toyland, Rose of Poster Children, Louise Post and Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt, and Liz Davis and Valerie Agnew of 7 Year Bitch. As it documents the development of a rock music genre that has so far received little academic attention, this book also demonstrates how this musical culture contributes to our understanding of the daily practices of gender relations among young people.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index.
LCCN 2001048791
ISBN0813530741 (alk. paper)
ISBN081353075X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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