Disruptive Divas
Feminism, Identity and Popular Music
1st Edition
Published on 12. October 2001
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-0-8153-3553-5 (ISBN)
Description
Disruptive Divas focuses on four female musicians: Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndegeocello and P. J. Harvey who have marked contemporary popular culture in unexpected ways have impelled and disturbed the boundaries of "acceptable" female musicianship.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8153-3553-5 (9780815335535)
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Lori Burns is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Ottawa. Melisse Lafrance is a doctoral candidate in French Studies at the University of Oxford.
Content
Preface Acknowledgments 1. A Cultural Studies Approach to Women and Popular Music 2. Close Readings of Popular Song: Intersections among Socio-cultural, Musical, and Lyrical Meanings 3. Tori Amos, Crucify (1991) 4. Courtney Love (Hole), Live Through This (1994) 5. Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Mary Magdalene (1996) 6. P.J. Harvey, Is this desire? (1998) Appendix 1: Song Lyrics Appendix 2: Reductive Analysis: Notation and Terminology