Women and popular music : sexuality, identity and subjectivity /

Main Author: Whiteley, Sheila, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York: Routledge, 2000
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Wonderful world, beautiful people: the 1960sʹ counter culture and its ideological relationship to women, 2 Repressive representations: patriarchy, femininities and 1960ʹs rock, 3 The personal is political: womenʹs liberation, sexuality, gender, freedom and repression, 4 Try, just a little bit harder: Janis Joplin and the search for personal identity, 5 The times they are a-changinʹ: folk and the singer songwriter, 6 The lonely road: Joni Mitchell, blue and female subjectivity, 7 Daughters of chaos: Patti Smith, Siouxsie Sioux and the feminisation of rock, 8 Challenging the feminine: Annie Lennox, androgyneity and illusions of identity, 9 Madonna, eroticism, autoeroticism and desire, 10 k.d. lang, a certain kind of woman, 11 Talkinʹ ʹbout a revolution: Tracy Chapman, political uprisings, domestic violence and love, 12 Authenticity, truthfulness and community: Tori Amos, Courtney Love, P.J. Harvey and Bjork, 13 Artifice and the imperatives of commercial success: from brit pop to the spice girls.