Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

Sheila Whiteley

Taylor & Francis, 1997 - Art - 353 pages

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.

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User Review  - Jamie - Goodreads

I read the chapters of this book that seemed relevant to my dissertation reading, so I was only able to read about half of it, but I would have read all of it if I'd been able to take the time. (Well ...

Review: Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

User Review  - Ariane - Goodreads

For some reason I can't get into this right now. Think I'll set it aside for now and revisit it later.

About the author

Whiteley is Reader in Popular Music at the University of Salford.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender
• Editor: Sheila Whiteley
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, annotated
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 1997
• ISBN: 0415146704, 9780415146708
• Length: 353 pages
• Subjects: Art / Popular Culture; Health & Fitness / Sexuality; Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Media Studies; Social Science / Popular Culture