Gender and Rock

by Mary Celeste Kearney

Overview

The first book of its kind, Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, lyrics, imagery, performances, instruments, 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 identities and ways of being. Drawing on feminist and queer scholarship in popular music studies, musicology, cultural studies, sociology, performance studies, literary analysis, and media studies, Gender & Rock provides readers with a survey of the topics, theories, and methods necessary for understanding and conducting analyses of gender in rock culture. Via an intersectional approach, the book examines how the gendering of particular roles, practices, technologies, and institutions within rock culture is related to discourses of race, sexuality, age, and class.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199359516
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/10/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Professor Mary Celeste Kearney is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"...excellent..." — Rosemary Lucy Hill, MUSICultures

"Kearney's text is impressive in its breadth...The style is appropriate for an undergraduate audience, and although it is challenging, I think students would rise to the occasion because of the topic. This is an important contribution to the existing scholarship on gender and music." — Kimberly R. Lacey, Saginaw Valley State University, Resources for Gender and Women's Studies: A Feminist Review

"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." —Sarah Dougher, Portland State University

"Gender and Rock is a book that any scholar or student of music and gender, or media and identity in general, must have in their collection and close at hand. Mary Celeste Kearney offers a comprehensive guide to thinking about and analyzing gender and rock music from interdisciplinary perspectives, clearly conveying difficult concepts and messy histories. Kearney takes the reader to all of the spaces where gender intersects with rock and with other identities, including bedrooms, studios, stages, and pages of academic and journalistic criticism and everything else connected to the production and consumption of rock music. Gender and Rock will influence popular music and media scholarship for years to come. I can't wait to use it in my teaching and research." —Norma Coates, University of Western Ontario

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