Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who include Mavis Beayton, Stella Bruzzi, Sara Cohen, Sean Cubitt, Keith Negus and Will Straw, debate how popular music performers, subcultures, fans and texts construct and deconstruct `masculine' and `feminine' identities. Using a wide range of case studies, from Mick Jagger to Riot Grrrls, they demonstrate that there is nothing `natural', permanent or immovable about the regime of sexual difference which governs society and culture.
Sexing the Groove also includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography for further reading and research into gender and popular music.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of contributors (p. viii)
• Acknowledgements (p. xi)
• Introduction (p. xiii)
• Part I Rock music culture (p. 1)
• 1 Sizing Up Record Collections Gender and connoisseurship in rock music culture (p. 3)
• 2 Men Making a Scene: Rock music and the production of gender (p. 17)
• 3 Women and the Electric Guitar (p. 37)
• 4 (R)evolution Now?: Rock and the political potential of gender (p. 50)
• Part II Masculinities and popular music (p. 65)
• 5 Little Red Rooster v. The Honky Tonk Woman: Mick Jagger, Sexuality, style and image (p. 67)
• 6 Bruce Springsteen and Masculinity (p. 100)
• 7 The Pet Shop Boys: Musicology, masculinity and banality (p. 118)
• Part III A time of growth and change: Femininities and popular music (p. 135)
• 8 Can a Fujiyama Mama be the Female Elvis?: The wild, wild women of rockabilly (p. 137)
• 9 Female Identity and the Woman Songwriter (p. 168)
• 10 Sinead O'Connor -- Musical Mother (p. 178)
• 11 Mannish Girl: k.d. lang -- from cowpunk to androgyny (p. 191)
• 12 The Missing Links: Riot grrrl -- feminism -- lesbian culture (p. 207)
• 13 'Rebel Girl, You are the Queen of My World': Feminism, 'subculture' and grrrl power (p. 230)
• Part IV Music, image and identity (p. 257)
• 14 Seduced by the Sign: An analysis of the textual links between sound and image in pop videos (p. 259)
• 15 Feeling and Fun: Romance, dance and the performing male body in the Take That videos (p. 277)
• 16 Rolling and Tumbling: Digital erotics and the culture of narcissism (p. 295)
• Part V Annotated bibliography (p. 317)
• 17 Sources for Further Reading and Research (p. 319)
• Index (p. 336)
• Discography (p. 351)