Ebook: Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

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 r.;Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Part I Rock music culture; 1 SIZING UP RECORD COLLECTIONS; 2 MEN MAKING A SCENE; 3 WOMEN AND THE ELECTRIC GUITAR; 4 (R)EVOLUTION NOW?; Part II Masculinities and popular music; 5 LITTLE RED ROOSTER v. THE HONKY TONK WOMAN; 6 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND MASCULINITY; 7 THE PET SHOP BOYS; Part III A time of growth and change: Femininities and popular music; 8 CAN A FUJIYAMA MAMA BE THE FEMALE ELVIS?; 9 FEMALE IDENTITY AND THE WOMAN SONGWRITER; 10 SINÉAD O'CONNOR -- MUSICAL MOTHER; 11 MANNISH GIRL.