This book focuses on queer fans, performers, and spaces within the heavy metal sphere, and demonstrates the importance and subcultural significance of queerness to the heavy metal ethos. Heavy metal scholarship has until recently focused on the roles of heterosexual hypermasculinity and hyperfeminin..
This book focuses on queer fans, performers, and spaces within the heavy metal sphere, and demonstrates the importance and subcultural significance of queerness to the heavy metal ethos. Heavy metal scholarship has until recently focused on the roles of heterosexual hypermasculinity and hyperfeminin..
This book investigates queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms to contribute to the corpus of scholarship in queer popular music studies. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality, which i..
This book offers critically-oriented case studies that examine the theory and politics of ambiguity. Covering popular music from around the globe, contributors approach the topic through music, sound, psyche, body, dance, performance, race, ethnicity, power, discourse, and history, visiting genres i..
When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain’s most prolific female composers. Gipps’s talents were acknowledged but not always respected and she was a figure often dogged by controversy. In the first major review of her life and work the importance of Ruth Gipps is established i..
When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain’s most prolific female composers. Gipps’s talents were acknowledged but not always respected and she was a figure often dogged by controversy. In the first major review of her life and work the importance of Ruth Gipps is established i..
Crafting a dynamic relationship between feminism and music-making, this book offers a queerly original analysis of Oliveros’s work as a musical form of feminist activism and argues for the productive role of experimental music in lesbian feminist theory...
Crafting a dynamic relationship between feminism and music-making, this book offers a queerly original analysis of Oliveros’s work as a musical form of feminist activism and argues for the productive role of experimental music in lesbian feminist theory...
Towards a Twenty-First Century Feminist Politics of Music opens up a new way of thinking about the absence of women's music. It does not aim to find 'a solution' in a liberal feminist sense, but to discover new potentialities, new possibilities for thought and action. Sally Macarthur encourages us, ..
Towards a Twenty-First Century Feminist Politics of Music opens up a new way of thinking about the absence of women's music. It does not aim to find 'a solution' in a liberal feminist sense, but to discover new potentialities, new possibilities for thought and action. Sally Macarthur encourages us, ..