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Author Burns, Lori.

Title Disruptive divas : feminism, identity & popular music / Lori Burns and Mélisse Lafrance.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2002.

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 Moore Stacks  MT146 .B87 2002    Available  ---
Description xix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in contemporary music and culture
Studies in contemporary music and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Focuses on four female musicians who have marked contemporary popular culture in unexpected ways. Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndegéocello, and P. J. Harvey have impelled and disturbed the boundaries of "acceptable" female musicianship. Disruptive Divas gives close readings to individual, representative songs by each of these artists, in order to make general statements about the role of women in popular music. The artists and songs selected explore a range of textural themes and musical studies. Disruptive Divas shows how this material has disrupted the general expectations of popular music style, performance and marketing; in turn, it helps to empower women to be creative artists.
Contents A cultural studies to women and popular music / Mélisse Lafrance -- "Close readings" of popular song : intersections among sociocultural. musical and lyrical meanings / Lori Burns -- Tori Amos, "Crucify" (1991). The problems of agency and resistance in Tori Amos's "Crucify" / Mélisse Lafrance ; Musical agency : strategies of containment and resistance in "Crucify" / Lori Burns -- Courtney Love (Hole), Live through this (1994). Culture of injury : Courtney Love on violence against women and the patriarchal aesthetic / Meĺisse Lafrance ; Musical force : violence and resistance in "Violet" / Lori Burns -- Me'Shell Ndegéocello, "Mary Magdalene" (1996). Textual subversion : the narrative sabotage of race, gender and desire in the music of Me'Shell Ndegéocello / Mélisse Lafrance ; Revising the sexual "gaze" : musical attributions of power in "Mary Magdalene" / Lori Burns -- P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire? (1998). Terrains of trouble : P.J. Harvey and the topography of desire / Mélisse Lafrance ; The crafting of desire : musical voice and musical embodiment / Lori Burns.
Subject Popular music -- 1991-2000 -- Analysis, appreciation.
Popular music.
Chronological Term 1991-2000
Subject Women in music.
Women in music.
Gender identity in music.
Gender identity in music.
Feminism and music.
Feminism and music.
Amos, Tori -- Criticism and interpretation.
Amos, Tori.
Criticism and interpretation.
Love, Courtney, 1964- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Love, Courtney, 1964-
NdegéOcello, Me'Shell, 1969- -- Criticism and interpretation.
NdegéOcello, Me'Shell, 1969-
Harvey, Polly Jean -- Criticism and interpretation.
Harvey, Polly Jean.
Added Author Lafrance, Mélisse.
Added Title Feminism, identity, and popular music
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