Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity / Edition 1

by Sheila Whiteley

Overview

From Janis Joplin to P.J. Harvey, Women and Popular Music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900415211900
Publication date:	07/06/2000
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Sheila Whiteley is Reader in Popular Music at the University of Salford. She is the author of The Space Between the Notes (Routledge 1992) and editor of Sexing the Groove (Routledge 1997).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Wonderful World, Beautiful People 2. Repressive Representations 3. The Personal is Political 4. Try, Just a Little Bit Harder 5. The Times, They are A'Changing 6. The Lonely Road 7. Daughters of Chaos 8. Challenging the Feminine 9. Madonna, Autoeroticism and Desire 10. k.d. lang, a Different Kind of Woman 11. Talkin' About a Revolution 12. Authenticity, Truthfulness and Community 13. Artifice and the Inperatives of Commercial Success