Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music

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Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music is written by Walter Everett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501345982 (ISBN 10) and 9781501345982 (ISBN 13).

Following the 1960's sexual revolution, rock and pop have continued to map the societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies. Although scholarship has well established how early rock and roll encouraged and affected issues of sex in the baby boomer generation, this book asks how subsequent pop music has maintained that tradition. The text discusses the gendered performances and biographical experiences of individual musicians, including Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Etta James, and Frank Ocean, and how their invented personae contribute to musical representations of sexuality. It evaluates lyric structure and symbolic language of these artists, and overall emphasizes how pop music, while a commodity art form, reflects the diversity of human sex and gender.