This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but no…
This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but no…
This book investigates the social and commercial reasons why some women became lost from the rock music record, and rewrites this period of popular music history. In addition to a wealth of original interview material with key protagonists, this new edition has been updated to r…
In the late 1970s and early 1980s a new phenomenon emerged in UK popular music – female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers began playing in bands. Before this time, women’s presence in rock bands, with a few notable exceptions, had always been as vocalists. …
This book investigates the social and commercial reasons why some women became lost from the rock music record, and rewrites this period of popular music history. In addition to a wealth of original interview material with key protagonists, this new edition has been updated to r…
This book investigates the social and commercial reasons why some women became lost from the rock music record, and rewrites this period of popular music history. In addition to a wealth of original interview material with key protagonists, this new edition has been updated to r…
Girls rock!: fifty years of women making music
by Shaw, Susan M., Lewis, Tisa, Carson, Mina
"Although women have been writing and performing rock music for decades, little has been written about their relationship to the industry and how they construct identities as rock 'n' roll artists. Girls Rock! examines the determination, motivation, and passion of the female roc…
With a foreword by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Girls Rock! explores the many ways women have defined themselves as rock musicians in an industry once dominated and controlled by men. Integrating history, feminist analysis, and developmental theory, the authors describe…
