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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.
List 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
About the author
Professor Mary Celeste Kearney is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.
Summary
Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, imagery, technologies, 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 ways of being.
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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.
