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Gender, Metal and the Media

Rosemary Lucy Hill
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 simplistic enjoyments of aggression, violence and virtuosity. Listening to women's experiences, she maintains, enables new thinking about hard rock and metal music, and about what it is like to be a women fan in a sexist environment.
Autor: Hill, Rosemary Lucy
EAN: 9781137554406
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 184
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK Springer Palgrave Macmillan
Untertitel: Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music
Schlagworte: Emo
Größe: 217 × 150 × 16
Gewicht: 350 g