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9 - Women and Rock

from Part II - Women in Popular Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2021

By
Leah Branstetter
Edited by
Laura Hamer
Laura Hamer
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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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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women and rockrock and rollrockmarginalisationJoanna Russanomalousness1950s1960sfalse categorisationauthenticity
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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 , pp. 131 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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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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