Rosemary Lucy Hill, Bianca Fileborn, Catherine Strong

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Women Musicians, Gender-Based Violence, and the Popular Music Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores gender-based violence within the music industry, and how women who have experienced violence represent it in their music.

Using the key case studies of music by Kesha, Lingua Ignota, and Alice Glass, as well as many other examples from across the musical landscape, the book examines how the artists represent their experiences of gender-based violence in their music, lyrics, and music videos; how they narrate and describe their experiences; how they incorporate these experiences into their public personas; and how the music industry itself might be facilitating or perpetuating the violence.

The analysis sheds light on how survivors construct their experiences, and how the songs and videos inscribe new understandings of gender-based violence. The book argues that men's control of women's creativity can be considered a form of musical abuse, and that through its structures and systems the music industry itself can be classed as inherently abusive. And yet, women musicians can sing back to the violence they've experienced and create powerful new representations that have the potential to change the way we listen to music, if we are prepared to develop our feminist ears.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765101728
• Artikelnr.: 72262113

Autorenporträt

Rosemary Lucy Hill is an independent scholar, formerly of the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is the author of Gender, Metal and the Media: Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music (2016) and many articles about feminism, music and big data. She is the co-series editor of Advances in Metal Music and Culture. She is the lead vocalist in a feminist folk metal band and currently writing her first novel.