Sheila Whiteley (Books)

Sheila Whiteley Books

Sheila Whiteley is an internationally recognized feminist musicologist, writer, and researcher focusing on issues of identity and subjectivity. She was awarded the first Chair of Popular Music in the UK in 2000 for her significant contributions to the study of gender, sexuality, and culture. Her work continues to shape and influence generations of academics, researchers, and musicologists.

Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

400 pages
14 hours of reading

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Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who include Mavis Beayton, Stella Bruzzi, Sara Cohen, Sean Cubitt, Keith Negus and Will Straw, debate how popular music performers, subcultures, fans and texts construct and deconstruct `masculine' and `feminine' identities. Using a wide range of case studies, from Mick Jagger to Riot Grrrls, they demonstrate that there is nothing `natural', permanent or immovable about the regime of sexual difference which governs society and culture. Sexing the Groove also includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography for further reading and research into gender and popular music.