Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender
Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender Why is gender inseparable from pop songs? Why are there strong links between gender, sexuality and popular music? What can gender…
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Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender
Why is gender inseparable from pop songs? Why are there strong links between gender, sexuality and popular music? What can gender representations in musical performances mean?
Numerous scholars writing about gender in popular music to date are concerned with the music industry's impact on fans, and how tastes and preferences become associated with gender. The sound of the voice, the mix, the arrangement, the lyrics and images, all link our impressions of gender to music. This is the first collection of its kind to develop and present new theories and methods in the analysis of popular music and gender.
The contributors are drawn from a range of disciplines including musicology, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, philosophy, and media studies, providing new reference points for studies in this interdisciplinary field. Stan Hawkins's introduction sets out to situate a variety of