Burns / Lafrance Disruptive Divas

Feminism, Identity and Popular Music
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-69881-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

Disruptive Divas focuses on four female musicians: Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndegéocello and P. J. Harvey who have marked contemporary popular culture in unexpected ways have impelled and disturbed the boundaries of "acceptable" female musicianship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burns, Lori

Lafrance, Melisse

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgments 1. A Cultural Studies Approach to Women and Popular Music 2. "Close Readings" of Popular Song: Intersections among Socio-cultural, Musical, and Lyrical Meanings 3. Tori Amos, "Crucify" (1991) 4. Courtney Love (Hole), Live Through This (1994) 5. Me'Shell Ndegeocello, "Mary Magdalene" (1996) 6. P.J. Harvey, Is this desire? (1998) Appendix 1: Song Lyrics Appendix 2: Reductive Analysis: Notation and Terminology

Über Autor(innen)

Lori Burns is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Ottawa. Mélisse Lafrance is a doctoral candidate in French Studies at the University of Oxford.