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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149414703321

Autore

Hill Rosemary Lucy

Titolo

Gender, Metal and the Media : Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music / / by Rosemary Lucy Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-55441-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 184 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Collana

Pop Music, Culture and Identity, , 2634-6613

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Communication

Sociology

Music

Feminist anthropology

Media and Communication

Gender Studies

Feminist Anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1.Gender, Metal and the Media: An Introduction -- 2.Hard Rock and Metal as an Imaginary Community -- 3.The media and the imaginary community -- 4.Women Fans and the Myth of the Groupie -- 5.Listening to Hard Rock and Metal Music -- 6.Metal and Sexism -- 7.The Gendered Experience of Music .

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a timely examination of the tension between being a rock music fan and being a woman. From the media representation of women rock fans as groupies to the widely held belief that hard rock and metal is masculine music, being a music fan is an experience shaped by gender. Through a lively discussion of the idealised imaginary community created in the media and interviews with women fans in the UK, Rosemary Lucy Hill grapples with the controversial topics of groupies, sexism and male dominance in metal. She challenges the claim that the genre is inherently masculine, arguing that musical pleasure is much more sophisticated than simplistic



enjoyments of aggression, violence and virtuosity. Listening to women’s experiences, she maintains, enables new thinking about hard rock and metal music, and about what it is like to be a women fan in a sexist environment. .