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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.
Sommario
- 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
Info autore
Professor Mary Celeste Kearney is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.
Riassunto
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.
Testo aggiuntivo
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.
