Gender and rock

Bibliographic Information

Gender and rock

Mary Celeste Kearney

Oxford University Press, c2017

  • : hardcover
  • : pbk

Other Title

Gender & rock

Available at  / 4 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Power Chords and Groupie Chicks Section 1 - Foundations: Rock and Gender Chapter 1 - Not Just Music: Studying Rock Culture Chapter 2 - Refusing Silence: Gender Studies and Rock Criticism Section 2 - Rock's Sociocultural Contexts: Values, Commerce, Distinctions Chapter 3 - Roll Over Beethoven: Rock's Discursive and Ideological Roots Chapter 4 - Art and Commerce: Rock Business Chapter 5 - From Rock'n'Roll to Post-Rock: Rock Genres Section 3 - Rock's Creative Contexts: Training, Technology, Performance Chapter 6 - In the Band: Rock Musician Roles and Training Chapter 7 - Gearing Up: Rock Technology Chapter 8 - Under the Lights and on the Road: Rock Performance Section 4 - Rock's Texts: Music and Images Chapter 9 - Up to Eleven: Rock Sounds Chapter 10 - Wordcraft: Rock Lyrics Chapter 11 - On the Cover: Rock's Print Images Chapter 12 - On-screen: Rock Videos Section 5 - Rock's Other Players: Consumers and Critics Chapter 13 - Teenyboppers and Headbangers: Rock Consumers and Fandom Chapter 14 - Evaluation and Interpretation: Rock Criticism Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top