Gender politics and MTV: Voicing the difference

By Lisa A. Lewis

Book Overview

Examining the videos and careers of female musicians Pat Benatar, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner, and Madonna, and their appeal to female audiences, this book challenges the idea that MTV presents only... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877226938
• ISBN13: 9780877226932
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This is an insightful, well-written analysis of women in rock

It's a few years old but Lisa Lewis' book is still a really useful analysis of rock music and MTV, and the role gender plays. She makes good arguments about the masculinity of rock and how women artists (namely Lauper, Benatar, Tina Turner, and Madonna) were able to make inroads, in spite of that. It's theoretically sophisticated but accessible, because she directly applies complex theory to the work of these women artists. Read it if you want to understand rock music a lot better than you do now; the ideas still work today.