The Routledge research companion to popular music and gender

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CONTENTS
List of figures and tables
List of musical examples
List of contributors
1 Introduction: Sensing gender in popular music
PART 1 Masculinities, femininities, community, and transcultural practice
	2 Growing up to be a rapper? Justin Bieber’s duet with Ludacris as transcultural practice
	3 “Where we going Johnny?” Homosociality and the early Beatles
	4 From throat singing to transcultural expression: Tanya Tagaq’s Katajjaq musical signature
	5 Spectres of masculinity: Markers of vulnerability and nostalgia in Johnny Cash
PART 2 Audiovisuality, sex(uality), women, and the politics of looking
	6 “You mean I can make a TV show?”: Web series, assertive music, and African American women producers
	7 Holding on for dear life: Gender, celebrity status, and vulnerability- on-display in Sia’s ‘Chandelier’
	8 Gender, sexuality and the politics of looking in Beyoncé’s ‘Video Phone’ (featuring Lady Gaga)
	9 ‘Working it’: Female masculinity and Missy Elliott
PART 3 Vernacular soundworlds, narratives, and stardom
	10 High notes, high drama: Musical climaxes and gender politics in tenor heroes and Broadway women
	11 The gendered narratives of nobodies and somebodies in the popular music economy
	12 Staging the ‘street boy’: Transculturalism, realness and hypermasculinity in the Norwegian rapper Jesse Jones
	13 Fairport Convention: Gender and voicing strategies in a sound signature
	14 “I don’t play girly house music”: Women, sonic stereotyping, and the dancing DJ
PART 4 Gender, race, and the female celebrity
	15 ‘A woman’s place’: Staging femininity in live music from Jenny Lind to the Jazz Age
	16 Beyoncé: Hip hop feminism and the embodiment of black femininity
	17 Performing race and gender: Erykah Badu between post-soul and Afrofuturism
	18 “Armed with the faith of a child”: Marit Larsen and strategies of faking
	19 “Singing from the heart”: Notions of gendered authenticity in pop music
PART 5 Challenging hegemonic practices: New masculinities, queerness, and transgenderism
	20 Doing hip-hop masculinity differently: Exploring Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak through word, sound, and image
	21 Express yourself! Gender euphoria and intersections
	22 Covering trans media: Temporal and narrative potential in messy musical archives
	23 Confronting the gender trouble for real: Mina Caputo, metal truth and transgender power
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