Gender and Rock

ISBN-13: 9780190688660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 400 str.

Mary Celeste Kearney

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Gender and Rock fills a long-empty spot for educators looking for a textbook to convey both information about gender theory in Anglophone scholarship, as well as a framework for understanding sounds and social practices associated with popular music ... As a musician, I find that this book includes credible and useful descriptions of industry standards and trends. As an educator who has been teaching the subject for nearly 15 years, I appreciate the range and scope of examples and contexts for understanding the foundational nature of music in 20th and 21st-century definitions of gender and gender expression.

O autorze

Professor Mary Celeste Kearney is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.