Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music



Pop, Rock, Rap


Backer, Audrey. "New Lyrics by Women: A Feminist Alternative, With Discography." Journal of Popular Culture 24 (1990), 1-22.

Bordo, Susan. "'Material Girl': The Effacements of Postmodern Culture." Michigan Quarterly Review 29/4 (1990): 669-675.

Bradby, Barbara. "Sampling Sexuality: Gender, Technology and the Body in Dance Music." Popular Music 12/2 (1993), 155-176.

Cooper, Sarah, ed. Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Daniel, Linda. "Canadian women in country music." In Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 73-76. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.

Forman, Murray. "'Movin' Closer to an Independent Funk': Black Feminist Theory, Standpoint, and Women in Rap." Women's Studies 23/1 (1994), 35-55.

Fuchs, Cynthia J. "Michael Jackson's penis." In Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, 13-33. Ed. Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

. Gaar, Gillian. She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock and Roll. Preface by Yoko Ono. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1992.

Gaunt, Kyra D. "The Musical Games African-American Girls Play: Understanding Gender and the Black Vernacular in Popular Culture." In Language, Rhythm and Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the 21st Century. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming.

Gaunt, Kyra D. "African-American Women Between Hopscotch and Hip-hop: 'Must Be the Music (That's Turnin' Me On")." In Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media: Global Diversities, ed. Angharad Valdivia, 277-308. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1995.

Goldstein, Lynda. "Revamping MTV: Passing for Queer Culture in the Video Closet." In Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology, ed. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, 262-279. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Headlam, Dave. "Does the Song Remain the Same? Questions of Authorship and Identification in the Music of Led Zeppelin." In Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies, ed. Elizabeth Marvin and Richard Hermann, 313-363. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1995.

Hisama, Ellie. "Postcolonialism on the Make: The Music of John Mellencamp, David Bowie and John Zorn." Popular Music 12/ 2 (1993), 91-104.

Irving, Katrina. "'I Want Your Hands On Me': Building Equivalences Through Rap Music." Popular Music 12/2 (1993), 105-121.

Lewis, Lisa A. Gender Politics, and MTV: Voicing the Difference. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

Lieberfeld, Daniel." Million-dollar juke joint: Commodifying blues culture." African American Review 29/2 (summer 1995), 217-221.

Lueck, Therese L. "One Voice: The Legacy of Women Singers in Popular Music." In America's Musical Pulse: Popular music in Twentieth-Century Society, ed. Kenneth J. Bindas, 221-228. Westport: Greenwood, 1992.

Maki-Kulmala, Ari. "Subculture, rock music, and gender." In Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 205-207. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.

McClary, Susan. "Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly." Genders 7 (Mar 1990), 1-21. [Madonna]

McClary, Susan. "'This is Not a Story My People Tell': Musical Time and Space According to Laurie Anderson." Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 21/1 (1989-1990), 104-128. [Laurie Anderson] [cf. Feminine Endings]

McClary, Susan, and Robert Walser. "Start Making Sense! Musicology Wrestles with Rock." In On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word, eds. Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin, 277-292. New York, Pantheon, 1990.

Mockus, Martha. "Queer Thoughts on Country Music and k.d. lang." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 257-271. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Muto, Jan. "He was the woman of his dreams: Identity, gender, and Kurt Cobain." Popular music and society 19/2 (1995), 69-85.

Negus, Keith. "Sinead O'Connor: Miniature portrait of the artist as an angry young woman. In Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 221-224. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.

O'Brien, Lucy. "Sisters of Swing: Stardom, Segregation and 1940/50s Pop." In Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music, ed. Sarah Cooper, 70-85. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

O'Brien, Lucy. She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.

Outlaw, Paul. "If that's your boyfriend (he wasn't last night)." African American Review 29/2 (summer 1995), 347-350.

Peterson-Lewis, Sonja. "A Feminist Analysis of the Defenses of Obscene Rap Lyrics." Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology 5/1 (Spring 1991), 68-79.

Quinn, Michael. "'Never shoulda been let out the penitentiary': Gangsta rap and the struggle over racial identity." Cultural critique 34(1996), 65-89.

Reynolds, Simon and Joy Press. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock'n'roll. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Roberts, Robin. "Ladies First": Queen Latifah's Afrocentric Feminist Music Video." African American Review 28 (1994), 245-257.

Roberts, Robin. "Music Videos, Performance, and Resistance: Feminist Rappers." Journal of Popular Culture 25 (1991), 41-52.

Ryan, John; Calhoun, Legare H., III; Wentworth, William M. "Gender or genre? Emotion models in commercial rap and country music." Popular Music and Society 20/2 (1996), 121-154.

Scheurer, Timothy E. "Goddesses and Golddiggers: Images of Women in Popular Music of the 1930s." Journal of Popular Culture 24 (Summer 1990), 23-38.

St. Lawrence, Janet S, and Doris J. Joyner. "The Effects of Sexually Violent Rock Music on Males' Acceptance of Violence Against Women." Psychology of Women Quarterly 15/1 (1991), 49-63.

Stein, Arlene. "Crossover dreams: Lesbianism and popular music since the 1970s." In: Out in culture: Gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture. London, England: Cassell, 1995. Durham: Duke U., 1995.

Vickers, Nancy J. "Maternalism and the Material Girl." In Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 230. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Walser, Robert. "Prince as Queer Poststructuralist." Popular Music and Society 18/2 (1994), 79-89. [Prince, androgyny, postmodernism]

Walser, Robert. Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. Hannover, NH: University Press of New England, 1993.

Whiteley, Sheila. "Mick Jagger: An analysis of sexuality, style, and image." In Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 309-312. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.

Whitesell, Lloyd. "A Joni Mitchell Aviary." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 46-54.

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