Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music: The Blues Through the Beatles to Beyoncé

Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music: The Blues Through the Beatles to Beyoncé
ISBN-10
1501345974
ISBN-13
9781501345975
Category
Music
Pages
185
Language
English
Published
2023-05-04
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Author
Walter Everett

Description

Following the 1960's sexual revolution, rock and pop have continued to map the societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies. Although scholarship has well established how early rock and roll encouraged and affected issues of sex in the baby boomer generation, this book asks how subsequent pop music has maintained that tradition. The text discusses the gendered performances and biographical experiences of individual musicians, including Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Etta James, and Frank Ocean, and how their invented personae contribute to musical representations of sexuality. It evaluates lyric structure and symbolic language of these artists, and overall emphasizes how pop music, while a commodity art form, reflects the diversity of human sex and gender.

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