Rosemary Lucy Hill

Gender, Metal and the Media

Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music

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This book is a timely examination of the tension between being a rock music fan and being a woman. From the media representation of women rock fans as groupies to the widely held belief that hard rock and metal is masculine music, being a music fan is an experience shaped by gender. Through a lively discussion of the idealised imaginary community created in the media and interviews with women fans in the UK, Rosemary Lucy Hill grapples with the controversial topics of groupies, sexism and male dominance in metal. She challenges the claim that the genre is inherently masculine, arguing that musical pleasure is much more sophisticated than simp… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-137-55441-3
EAN: 9781137554413
Produktnummer: 21797243
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'192 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße und 8 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Rosemary Lucy Hill is Lecturer in Sociology at University of Leeds, UK. She researches gender, popular music and big data. She has published on the metal media, the moral panic around emo, subcultural theory and semiotics. She appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed on the subject of women fans, metal and subcultures.