Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity and Popular Music / Edition 1

by Lori Burns, Melisse Lafrance

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815335542
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/12/2001
Series:	Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lori Burns is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Ottawa. Mélisse Lafrance is a doctoral candidate in French Studies at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. A Cultural Studies Approach to Women and Popular Music 2. Close Readings of Popular Song: Intersections among Socio-cultural, Musical, and Lyrical Meanings 3. Tori Amos, Crucify (1991) 4. Courtney Love (Hole), Live Through This (1994) 5. Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Mary Magdalene (1996) 6. P.J. Harvey, Is this desire? (1998) Appendix 1: Song Lyrics Appendix 2: Reductive Analysis: Notation and Terminology