Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender [Hardcover]

Sheila Whiteley (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415146704 | ISBN-13: 978-0415146708 | Publication Date: November 4, 1997 | Edition: annotated edition

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 Grrrls, they demonstrate that there is nothing `natural', permanent or immovable about the regime of sexual difference which governs society and culture.
Sexing the Groove also includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography for further reading and research into gender and popular music.

Editorial Reviews

Review

[Contains] kernals of insight..
–Entertainment Weekly

Lively writing on pop music and gender..
–Inquirer, Philadelphia

...an excellent, much-needed book and would make an excellent gift for any rock musician/women's studies students in your life.
–Feminist Bookstore News

A good reference tool for the aspiring music scholar and as such, a sound basis for ever-continuing exploration into the nature of gender in popular music.
–Austin Chronicle

...a well-written theory text.
–Xtra

About the Author

Sheila Whiteley is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music and Associate Director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Salford. She is the author of The Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture (Routledge 1992).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; annotated edition edition (November 4, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415146704
• ISBN-13: 978-0415146708
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,395,231 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my fav books on the subject, March 8, 2008

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Jane Vincent (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender (Paperback)

I really enjoyed this book. The essays range from close readings of music videos to an examination of record collector psychology. The level of discourse is very high, but I also didn't feel like any of it was too opaque for someone who was less familiar with the subject. This book really offered me something different in the genre of gender/music theory by having such varied subject matter.