Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity and Popular Music

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. A Cultural Studies Approach to Women and Popular Music
• 2. Close Readings of Popular Song: Intersections among Socio-cultural, Musical, and Lyrical Meanings
• 3. Tori Amos, Crucify (1991)
• 4. Courtney Love (Hole), Live Through This (1994)
• 5. Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Mary Magdalene (1996)
• 6. P.J. Harvey, Is this desire? (1998)
• Appendix 1: Song Lyrics
• Appendix 2: Reductive Analysis: Notation and Terminology