Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

Recent discussions about Jamaica’s popular music — reggae — have focused on the kinds of images of women that have been created by reggae artists, especially those who focus on “dance hall” reggae. Content analysis is used here to examine the lyrics of thirty five songs created and performed between the mid-1960s and the end of the 1980s in an attempt to determine whether the images of women in reggae lyrics are largely negative and may contribute to norms that foster discrimination against women.

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Getting into the groove?

Popular Music ◽

10.1017/s0261143000000258 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 397-402

Author(s):

Jill Halstead

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Popular Music ◽

Media Studies ◽

Cultural Theory ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Popular Music Studies ◽

And Performance ◽

And Gender ◽

Music And Gender

Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender.Edited by Sheila Whiteley. London and New York: Routeledge, 1997, 353 pp.Sex, sexuality and articulations of gender are well-established components in the production and performance of popular music. Hence, Sexing the Groove, edited by Sheila Whiteley, is a very welcome addition to this vital and growing area of popular music studies and cultural theory more generally. The collection reflects the reality that studies of gender and sexuality in popular music are born of a hybrid lineage; accordingly the book approaches its subject from a range of disciplines such as sociology, cultural theory, media studies, sychology and musicology, and as such is a vibrant mix. Despite its relative diversity, the book's structure and progression is fluent and focused.

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Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

Ethnomusicology ◽

10.2307/852566 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 551

Author(s):

Cheryl L. Keyes ◽

Sheila Whiteley

Keyword(s):

Popular Music ◽

And Gender ◽

Music And Gender

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780190938796.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Kai Arne Hansen

Keyword(s):

Popular Music ◽

Pop Music ◽

Music Culture ◽

Gender Representations ◽

Construction Of Identity ◽

Social Discourses ◽

Interpretive Approach ◽

And Gender ◽

Music And Gender ◽

Definition Of

Demonstrating that gender representations in popular culture are intertwined with a broad range of cultural, historical, and social discourses that shape both their production and reception, the introduction outlines some of the key concerns related to the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music. It discusses the theoretical and methodological foundations that may underpin an interdisciplinary, intersectional, and interpretive approach to the study of popular music and gender, and places an emphasis on grappling with the multiple affordances elicited by pop artists’ construction of identity across several platforms. It advocates for an inclusive definition of pop music that encompasses the range of musical and cultural impulses that circulate in mainstream popular music culture. It also discusses the selection of material for a study of pop music and masculinity, and considers the benefits and limitations of an artist-centered interpretive approach.

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Introduction to ‘Music and Television’ special issue

Popular Music ◽

10.1017/s0261143002002167 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 245-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Keith Negus ◽

John Street

Keyword(s):

Popular Music ◽

Special Edition ◽

Special Issue ◽

Starting Point ◽

History Of ◽

And Gender ◽

Music And Gender ◽

The Relationship

Television has been conspicuously neglected in studies of popular music, and music has been notably absent from most accounts of television. The thought that this neglect might be significant was taken as the starting point for this special edition of the journal. Unlike some subjects (such as popular music and gender/sexuality, for example), where it is readily apparent that a number of people are busily pursuing research and where there is a history of sustained engagement in a range of related theories and debates, it was not clear initially who, if anyone, was seriously thinking about or researching the relationship between music and television. Even work on popular music and video, which once grabbed the imagination of popular music and media scholars, has faded from the academic agenda. We hoped that the call for papers might strike a chord and prompt new thoughts about this area.

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