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1	Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality more books like this by Susan McClary add to wishlist When it was originally published in 1991, Feminine Endings was immediately controversial for its unprecedented intermingling of cultural criticism and musical studies, an approach that came to be called "the New Musicology." Through case studies of works ranging from the canonical -- operas by Monteverdi and Bizet -- to the contemporary -- the ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $21.81! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Listening to Salsa more books like this by Frances R Aparicio add to wishlist Portrays the complex politics of gender, sex, class, and race in Puerto Rican salsa music. see all copies from $5.90! new only from $18.07! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Angry Women in Rock more books like this by Andrea Juno (Editor) add to wishlist Andrea Juno's series of 13 interviews with women in a variety of rock roles, from singers like the Swans' Jarboe to Thrill Jockey Records boss Bettina Richards, is an illuminating refutation of the hackneyed view of feminists as an amorphous group of humorless pedants. Each of these thoughtful and strong-willed women ("angry" is something of a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.86! \| first editions
4	From Lilith to Lilith Fair more books like this by Buffy Childerhose add to wishlist This account concerns the Lilith Fair, a 1997 musical festival that showcased female musicians, including Paula Cole and the Indigo Girls. The author, Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, describes her experience of organizing the event, and she highlights her negative interactions with journalists, who belittled her attempts to challenge the male ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity more books like this by Sheila Whiteley, Whiteley Sheila add to wishlist From Janis Joplin to P.J. Harvey, Women and Popular Music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture. Through a series of artist case studies Sheila Whiteley examines the interaction between feminist debates and music culture over thirty years of pop history. Sheila Whiteley begins ... see all copies from $19.90! new only from $30.68! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Music, Gender, Education more books like this by Lucy Green add to wishlist This book focuses on the role of education in relation to music and gender. Invoking a concept of musical patriarchy and a theory of the social construction musical meanings, Lucy Green shows how women's musical practices and gendered musical meanings have been reproduced, hand in hand, through history. Covering a wide range of music, including ... see all copies from $28.97! new only from $33.69! \| SVS
7	Go, Girl, Go!: The Women's Revolution in Music more books like this by James L Dickerson add to wishlist Provides a nearly 100 year history of women in music. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera more books like this by Naomi Adele Andre add to wishlist The early 19th century was a period of acute transition in operatic tradition and style, when time-honoured practices gave way to the developing aesthetics of Romanticism, the rise of the tenor overtook the falling stars of the castrati, and the heroic, the masculine, and the feminine were profoundly reconfigured. These transformations resounded ... see all copies from $22.17! new only from $31.70!
9	Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism: Anger Is an Energy more books like this by Neil Nehring add to wishlist The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music. The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music ... see all copies from $16.97! new only from $49.23! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Women's Voices Across Musical Worlds more books like this by Jane A Bernstein (Editor) add to wishlist An exploration of the musical activities and expressions of women from a thematic perspective, this collection of essays provides a cross-cultural and cross-historical view of the roles women have played as creators and performers, and the representation of women in world, popular and art music. see all copies from $14.26! new only from $15.25! \| SVS
11 view cover	Ladies First: Women in Music Videos more books like this by Robin Roberts add to wishlist Ladies First: Women in Music Videos by Robin Roberts Queen Latifah's lyrics tout female superiority. Salt 'n Pepa energize with eroticism. Julie Brown's unsettling version of a campus queen dethrones the mainstream icon. Martina McBride's song of liberation gives new meaning to Independence Day. Today in the music video industry such women artists ... see all copies from $2.51! new only from $2.51!
12 view cover	Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity and Popular Music more books like this by Lori Burns, Melisse Lafrance add to wishlist Using four examples--Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndegéocello, and P. J. Harvey--Burns and Lafrance explore gender issues in popular music, from those raised in the music of these artists to those raised by the marketing of their work. see all copies from $23.37! new only from $36.68! \| SVS
13 view cover	Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera more books like this by Mary Ann Smart (Editor) add to wishlist It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. "Siren Songs" is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars ... see all copies from $14.16! new only from $30.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	Backstage Pass: Interviews with Women in Music more books like this by Laura Post, Dar Williams (Foreword by) add to wishlist 35 in-depth interviews with independent, woman-identified musicians like Ferron, Joan Osborne, Ani DiFranco, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. Laura Post has provided a comprehensive collection of interviews with thirty-five vibrant women musicians. In an industry characterized by corporate packaging and promotion, these women have distinguished ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture more books like this by Lisa L Rhodes add to wishlist Professor of American studies at Temple University, Pennsylvania, Lisa Rhodes is also a musician who has recorded in her own right and has collaborated with the renowned New Orleans band, the Neville Brothers. ELECTRIC LADYLAND, her study of women's roles in the tumultuous 1960s music scene, therefore carries the weight of both academic and ... see all copies from $20.87! new only from $20.87! \| SVS
16 view cover	Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music more books like this by Susan C Cook (Editor), Judy Tsou (Editor), Susan McClary (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.99!
17 view cover	Grrrls: Viva Rock Divas more books like this by Amy Raphael add to wishlist Courtney Love: "I rely a lot on sexual metaphors-food as sex, music as sex, fucked-up weird insane sexual vistas that haunt me and make me feel as though I were going insane sometimes." Bjork: "I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds." Kim Gordon: "I always wanted to rebel." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $84.45! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Feminist Aesthetics in Music more books like this by Sally MacArthur add to wishlist Is there such a thing as "women's music"? Do women write and listen to music differently than men do? While recognizing that the differences among women are as distinct as the differences between genders, this bold new study examines gender's influence on music. The author's unique analytical strategy shows, in its application to actual musical ... see all copies from $44.00! new only from $44.95!
19 view cover	Rock She Wrote more books like this by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor), Ann Powers (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology of female rock critics' articles on rock, rap, and pop music covers prominent musicians and albums of the 1980s and '90s. It includes bell hooks' analysis of Madonna, Patti Smith's erotic perspective of Bob Dylan, and Joan Morgan's conflicting thoughts on Ice Cube's misogynist lyrics. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20 view cover	Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture more books like this by Leslie C Dunn (Editor), Nancy A Jones (Editor), Dunn/Jones add to wishlist As a material link between body and culture, self and other, the voice has been endlessly fascinating to artists and critics. Yet it is the voices of women that have inspired the greatest fascination, as well as the deepest ambivalence, because the female voice signifies sexual otherness as well as sexual and cultural power. Embodied Voices ... see all copies from $42.53! new only from $42.53! \| SVS
21 view cover	Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide more books like this by Pendle Karin add to wishlist Compiled by a recognized leader in the field, "Women in Music" is the only complete and up-to-date annotated bibliography available on women's activities and contributions in the creation and performance of music through the ages. Encompassing major books, articles and recordings published over the past five decades, the book examines a broad ... see all copies from $103.85! new only from $103.85!
22	Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture more books like this by Nancy A Jones (Editor), Leslie C Dunn (Editor) add to wishlist As a material link between body and culture, self and other, the voice has been endlessly fascinating to artists and critics. Yet it is the voices of women that have inspired the greatest fascination, as well as the deepest ambivalence, because the female voice signifies sexual otherness as well as sexual and cultural power. Embodied Voices ... see all copies from $42.00!
23 view cover	Sex revolts : gender, rebellion and rock 'n' roll more books like this by Simon Reynolds, Joy Press add to wishlist This study analyzes song lyrics to describe how women have traditionally been depicted in rock 'n' roll. The authors argue that male songwriters have either exploited or worshipped women, and that these perceptions will only change when women take control and write the words themselves. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Riot Grrrl Movement: Feminism of a New Gen. more books like this by Cherie Turner add to wishlist Our new books address health and safety concerns for young adults in a comprehensive and informative context. This book explores the ways in which feminism and punk rock merged in the 1980s and 1990s to create a girl-centered subculture. This book traces the development of this movement into the present day. It also explains the ways in which riot ... see all copies from $10.43! new only from $39.14!
25	Musique sorcière more books like this by Méri Franco-Lao add to wishlist see all copies from $24.99! new only from $46.00!

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