Sexing the groove : Popular music and gender /
Ed. : Sheila Whiteley
- London : Routledge, 1997
- 353 p.
Part I. Rock music culture. Sizing up record collections: gender and connoisseurship in rock music culture / Will Straw -- Men making a scene: rock music and the production of gender / Sara Cohen -- Women and the electric guitar / Mavis Bacon -- (R)evolution now? Rock and the political potential of gender / Norma Coates. Part II. Masculinities and popular music: Little red rooster vs. the Honky tonk woman: Mick Jagger, sexuality, style and image / Sheila Whiteley -- Bruce Springsteen and masculinity / Gareth Palmer -- The Pet Shop Boys: musicology, masculinity and banality / Stan Hawkins. Part III. A time of growth and change: femininities and popular music. Can a fujiyama mama be the female Elvis? The wild, wild women of rockabilly / David Sanjek -- Female identity and the woman songrwiter / Charlotte Greig -- Sinéad O'Connor-- musical mother / Keith Negus -- Mannish girl: k.d. lang-- from cowpunk to androgyny / Stella Bruzzi -- The missing links: riot grrl- feminism- lesbian culture / Mary Celeste kearney -- 'Rebel girl, you are the queen of my world': Feminism, 'subculture' and grrl power/ Marion Leonard. Part IV. Music, image and identity. Seduced by the sign: an analysis of of the textual links between sound and image in pop videos / Sheila Whiteley -- Feeling and fun: romance, dance and the performing male body in the Take That videos / Paul McDonald -- Rolling and tumbling: digital erotics and the culture of narcissism / Sean Cubitt.
Popular music--Social aspects. Sex in music. Gender identity in music.