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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burns, Lori.

Contributor:

Lafrance, Mélisse.

Series:

Studies in contemporary music and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--1991-2000--Analysis, appreciation.

Popular music.

Women in music.

Gender identity in music.

Feminism and music.

Physical Description:

xix, 255 pages : music ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Feminism, identity & popular music

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

Four "disruptive divas" -- Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, and P.J. Harvey -- have expanded and upset the boundaries of "acceptable" female musicianship. By challenging our sense of what a female pop musician ought to be, they disrupt a dominant discourse that includes particular ideas of femininity, sexuality, desire, and the social relations of domination and subordination. Taking these women, their music, and their personae as exemplars of subversive elements within the pop culture milieu, Lori Burns and Melisse Lafrance examine a collection of their songs from both cultural and musicological perspectives to discover how a woman/musician/icon can disturb the very logic of her own popularity. The result, disruptive divas, is a remarkably engaging look at how these musicians challenge and overturn a host of conceptions about female identity through the medium of pop stardom.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index.

ISBN:

0815335539

0815335547

OCLC:

45958053