Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, imagery, technologies, and business practices. Additionally, it explores how rock culture, despite a history of regressive gender politics, has provided a place for musicians and consumers to experiment with alternate ways of being.

• Acknowledgements


• List of Illustrations


• Introduction: Power Chords and Groupie Chicks


• Section 1 - Foundations: Rock and Gender


• Chapter 1 - Not Just Music: Studying Rock Culture


• Chapter 2 - Refusing Silence: Gender Studies and Rock Criticism


• Section 2 - Rock's Sociocultural Contexts: Values, Commerce, Distinctions


• Chapter 3 - Roll Over Beethoven: Rock's Discursive and Ideological Roots


• Chapter 4 - Art and Commerce: Rock Business


• Chapter 5 - From Rock'n'Roll to Post-Rock: Rock Genres


• Section 3 - Rock's Creative Contexts: Training, Technology, Performance


• Chapter 6 - In the Band: Rock Musician Roles and Training


• Chapter 7 - Gearing Up: Rock Technology


• Chapter 8 - Under the Lights and on the Road: Rock Performance


• Section 4 - Rock's Texts: Music and Images


• Chapter 9 - Up to Eleven: Rock Sounds


• Chapter 10 - Wordcraft: Rock Lyrics


• Chapter 11 - On the Cover: Rock's Print Images


• Chapter 12 - On-screen: Rock Videos


• Section 5 - Rock's Other Players: Consumers and Critics


• Chapter 13 - Teenyboppers and Headbangers: Rock Consumers and Fandom


• Chapter 14 - Evaluation and Interpretation: Rock Criticism


• Index

Professor Mary Celeste Kearney is Director of Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.