Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415146712 ISBN 13: 9780415146715

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who include Mavis Beayton, Stella Bruzzi, Sara Cohen, Sean Cubitt, Keith Negus and Will Straw, debate how popular music performers, subcultures, fans and texts construct and deconstruct `masculine' and `feminine' identities. Using a wide range of case studies, from Mick Jagger to Riot Grrrls, they demonstrate that there is nothing `natural', permanent or immovable about the regime of sexual difference which governs society and culture.
Sexing the Groove also includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography for further reading and research into gender and popular music.

About this title

About the Author:

Sheila Whiteley is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music and Associate Director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Salford. She is the author of The Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture (Routledge 1992).

Review:

"[Contains] kernals of insight.."
-"Entertainment Weekly
"Lively writing on pop music and gender.."
-"Inquirer, Philadelphia
..."an excellent, much-needed book and would make an excellent gift for any rock musician/women's studies students in your life."
-"Feminist Bookstore News
"A good reference tool for the aspiring music scholar and as such, a sound basis for ever-continuing exploration into the nature of gender in popular music."
-"Austin Chronicle
..."a well-written theory text."
-"Xtra

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415146712
• ISBN 13: 9780415146715
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 390
• Editor: Sheila Whiteley