Includes bibliographical references, discographies and index.
Contents:
Introduction: for those bazillions of women and other genders / Michelle Gadpaille and Victor Kennedy -- The mask behind the man: gender bending, sexual fluidity and the fractal subjectivity of David Bowie / Morjca Krevel -- "Gut level": the conceptualization of gender in the lyrics of Kim Gordon / Melanija Larisa Fabčič -- Bad reputation or sexism? Joan Jett's influence on gender equality in rock music / Dolores Hunsky -- Breaking taboos in the 1980s Toronto New Wave music / Victor Kennedy -- Girls, girls, girls: women in glam metal / Maiken Ana Kores -- Homophobia in rap / Jožef Kolarič -- American popular music and its influence on English vocabulary / Bojan Kasuba -- "You scream like a girl": growling and screaming female voices in metal music / Tina Ritlop -- The adaptation of lyrics, music and performance of the Hindustani genre ṭhumrī as a tool of affirmation for professional women singers in the Changing North Indian Society of the XX Century / Marged Flavia Trumper -- The female voice in Slovenian jazz / Zmago Pavličič -- "A vos jeux, mes amis": Ophelia finding her own voice in Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet / F. Zeynep Bilge -- "Music is the nightingale": gender masquerade to music in Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona / Michelle Gadpaille -- Evoking music, evoking memories: on the role of music in James Joyce's The Dead / Ana Penjak -- Music as faux escape in Miriam Toews's A Complicated Kindness / Jason Blake -- Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain": a near allusion to the folksong / Tjaša Mohar -- The aesthetics of challenged masculinities: song lyrics and poems in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Jerneja Planinšek Žlof -- Music and femininity in Adrienne Rich's "Transcendental Etude" / Nastja Prajnc Kasijan.
Summary:
"Musicians, teachers and those who love music will find in this volume some answers to the question of how gender affects its practice, performance and reception. What was performing like for female rock singers in the 20th century? How did Bowie change our concept of performer identity? Just how sexist are the lyrics in glam metal songs? Is rap as homophobic as has been thought? Can female metal singers growl as well as men? Are LGBTQ+ issues reflected in 21st century music? Did Canadian New Wave groups tackle major social issues? How do Shakespeare and Joyce use musical puns and allusions? From Indian thumri, through French opera, Irish folk songs, and pop, all the way to metal and rap, the 17 contributions gathered here will challenge and inform, while confirming that our music shapes our habits, language, ideas and gendered selves" --Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.