Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 228 pages
- Published by: Routledge
- Edition: 1st Edition October 12, 2001
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0815335547
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0815335542
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 15.8 ounces
Product Description
Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity and Popular Music focuses on four female musicians who have marked contemporary popular culture in unexpected ways. Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndegéocello and P. J. Harvey have impelled and disturbed the boundaries of "acceptable" female musicianship.
Disruptive Divas gives close readings to individual, representative songs by each of these artists, in order to make general statements about the role of women in popular music. The artists and songs selected explore a range of textural themes and musical studies.
Disruptive Divas shows how this material has disrupted the general expectations of popular music style, performance and marketing; in turn, it helps to empower women to be creative artists.
About The Author
Lori Burns is assistant professor of music at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of several books on music, as well as articles in scholarly collections and journals. Melisse Lafrance, a recording artist and cultural critic, has written essays and presented papers on feminism, cultural studies, and popular music in the U.S. and Canada.
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