Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Boxes
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I The Classical Tradition
- Part II Women in Popular Music
- 7 Most of My Sheroes Don’t Appear on a Stamp: Contextualising the Contributions of Women Musicians to the Progression of Jazz
- 8 Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s
- 9 Women and Rock
- 10 ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’: Women in Songwriting
- 11 The British Folk Revival: Mythology and the ‘Non-Figuring’ and ‘Figuring’ Woman
- 12 How MTV Idols Got Us in Formation: Solo Women and Their Brands Make Space for Truth Telling, Trauma, and Survival in Popular Music from 1981 to the Present
- In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 2
- Part III Women and Music Technology
- Part IV Women’s Wider Work in Music
- Appendix: Survey Questions for Chapter 14, The Star-Eaters: A 2019 Survey of Female and Gender-Non-Conforming Individuals Using Electronics for Music
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
9 - Women and Rock
from Part II - Women in Popular Music
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Boxes
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I The Classical Tradition
- Part II Women in Popular Music
- 7 Most of My Sheroes Don’t Appear on a Stamp: Contextualising the Contributions of Women Musicians to the Progression of Jazz
- 8 Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s
- 9 Women and Rock
- 10 ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’: Women in Songwriting
- 11 The British Folk Revival: Mythology and the ‘Non-Figuring’ and ‘Figuring’ Woman
- 12 How MTV Idols Got Us in Formation: Solo Women and Their Brands Make Space for Truth Telling, Trauma, and Survival in Popular Music from 1981 to the Present
- In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 2
- Part III Women and Music Technology
- Part IV Women’s Wider Work in Music
- Appendix: Survey Questions for Chapter 14, The Star-Eaters: A 2019 Survey of Female and Gender-Non-Conforming Individuals Using Electronics for Music
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Chapter 9 probes the ‘women-in-music’ trope. Leah Branstetter deftly draws upon the work of Joanna Russ to examine how women have been marginalised within rock music. She considers the tendency of historiographies of rock to construct female rock musicians as anomalies, to devalue their contributions, and to resist categorising their music as ‘authentic’.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 , pp. 131 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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Further Reading
Mahon, Maureen. Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020).Google Scholar
McDonnell, Evelyn (ed.). Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyoncé, Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl (New York, NY: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018).Google Scholar
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