Description

Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, imagery, technologies, and business practices. Additionally, it explores how rock culture, despite a history of regressive gender politics, has provided a place for musicians and consumers to experiment with alternate ways of being.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Power Chords and Groupie Chicks
Section 1 – Foundations: Rock and Gender
Chapter 1 – Not Just Music: Studying Rock Culture
Chapter 2 – Refusing Silence: Gender Studies and Rock Criticism
Section 2 – Rock’s Sociocultural Contexts: Values, Commerce, Distinctions
Chapter 3 – Roll Over Beethoven: Rock’s Discursive and Ideological Roots
Chapter 4 – Art and Commerce: Rock Business
Chapter 5 – From Rock’n’Roll to Post-Rock: Rock Genres
Section 3 – Rock’s Creative Contexts: Training, Technology, Performance
Chapter 6 – In the Band: Rock Musician Roles and Training
Chapter 7 – Gearing Up: Rock Technology
Chapter 8 – Under the Lights and on the Road: Rock Performance
Section 4 – Rock’s Texts: Music and Images
Chapter 9 – Up to Eleven: Rock Sounds
Chapter 10 – Wordcraft: Rock Lyrics
Chapter 11 – On the Cover: Rock’s Print Images
Chapter 12 – On-screen: Rock Videos
Section 5 – Rock’s Other Players: Consumers and Critics
Chapter 13 – Teenyboppers and Headbangers: Rock Consumers and Fandom
Chapter 14 – Evaluation and Interpretation: Rock Criticism
Index