1 A cultural studies to women and popular music / Mélisse Lafrance -- 2 "Close readings" of popular song : intersections among sociocultural. musical and lyrical meanings / Lori Burns -- 3 Tori Amos, "Crucify" (1991). The problems of agency and resistance in Tori Amos's "Crucify" / Mélisse Lafrance ; Musical agency : strategies of containment and resistance in "Crucify" / Lori Burns -- 4 Courtney Love (Hole), Live through this (1994). Culture of injury : Courtney Love on violence against women and the patriarchal aesthetic / Meĺisse Lafrance ; Musical force : violence and resistance in "Violet" / Lori Burns -- 5 Me'Shell Ndegéocello, "Mary Magdalene" (1996). Textual subversion : the narrative sabotage of race, gender and desire in the music of Me'Shell Ndegéocello / Mélisse Lafrance ; Revising the sexual "gaze" : musical attributions of power in "Mary Magdalene" / Lori Burns -- 6 P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire? (1998). Terrains of trouble : P.J. Harvey and the topography of desire / Mélisse Lafrance ; The crafting of desire : musical voice and musical embodiment / Lori Burns
Summary
Disruptive Divas focuses on four female musicians: Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndegéocello and P.J. Harvey who have marked contemporary popular culture in unexpected ways have impelled and disturbed the boundaries of ""acceptable"" female musicianship
Analysis
popmusikk
rock
kvinner
kjønn
identitet
feminisme
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index
