Gender and Rock

The first book of its kind Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture including its music lyrics imagery performances instruments and business practices. Additionally it explores how rock culture despite a history of regressive gender politics has provided a place for musicians and consumers to experiment with alternate identities and ways of being. Drawing on feminist and queer scholarship in popular music studies musicology cultural studies sociology performance studies literary analysis and media studies Gender & Rock provides readers with a survey of the topics theories and methods necessary for understanding and conducting analyses of gender in rock culture. Via an intersectional approach the book examines how the gendering of particular roles practices technologies and institutions within rock culture is related to discourses of race sexuality age and class.