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Gender, Metal and the Media
Rosemary Lucy Hill
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Description for Gender, Metal and the Media
Hardback. Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 193 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVGT; JFD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 385.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
Series
Pop Music, Culture and Identity
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137554406
SKU
V9781137554406
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About Rosemary Lucy Hill
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.
Reviews for Gender, Metal and the Media
“Gender, Metal, and the Media is a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening book. Readers will leave energized, thinking about gender and fandom in new ways. With its solid use of subcultural theory, this book’s primary audience would be scholars of subcultural studies, but it should also be of interest to scholars and students of media, culture, and gender studies.” (Elizabeth Cherry, ... Read more