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Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

by Sheila Whiteley

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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 show more Grrrls, they demonstrate that there is nothing `natural', permanent or immovable about the r show less

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Sheila Whiteley

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Sheila Whiteley is Chair of Popular Music at the University of Salford.

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Languages: English
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ISBNs: 4

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Published: 1997
Genres: Music, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Art & Design
DDC/MDS: 306.4
LCC: ML3470 .S46

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