Women and popular music : sexuality, identity, and subjectivity /
"Women and Popular Music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture. Sheila Whiteley begins by examining the counter-culture's reactionary attitudes to women through the lyrics of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. She explo...
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Wonderful world, beautiful people : the 1960s' counter culture and its ideological relationship to women
- Repressive representations : patriarchy, femininities and 1960s' rock
- The personal is political : women's liberation, sexuality, gender, freedom and repression
- Try, just a little bit harder : Janis Joplin and the search for personal identity
- The times they are a-changin' : folk and the singer songwriter
- The lonely road : Joni Mitchell, Blue and female subjectivity
- Daughters of chaos : Patti Smith, Siouxsie Sioux and the feminisation of rock
- Challenging the feminine : Annie Lennox, androgyneity and illusions of identity
- Madonna, eroticism, autoeroticism and desire
- k.d. lang, a certain kind of woman
- Talkin' 'bout a revolution : Tracy Chapman, political uprisings, domestic violence and love
- Authenticity, truthfulness and community : Tori Amos, Courtney Love, P.J. Harvey and Björk
- Artifice and the imperatives of commercial success : from Brit Pop to the Spice Girls.
