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Gender Politics And MTV: Voicing the Difference

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It's a few years old but Lisa Lewis' book is still a really useful analysis of rock music and MTV, and the role gender plays. She makes good arguments about the masculinity of rock and how women artists (namely Lauper, Benatar, Tina Turner, and Madonna) were able to make inroads, in spite of that. It's theoretically sophisticated but accessible, because she directly applies complex theory to the work of these women artists. Read it if you want to understand rock music a lot better than you do now; the ideas still work today.

I was very disappointed in this book. It seems to me that the author of this book has no experience in writing whatsoever. She couldn't keep to the point and kept rambling on and on about things that were irrelevant to the main idea. I find her writing narcissistic and boring. I only gave this review 1 star because I was forced to. Otherwise I would've given this book 0 stars. Don't buy this book. You'll be very disappointed.