Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music

Walter Everett is Professor Emeritus of Music in Music Theory at the University of Michigan, USA. He is the author of Foundations of Rock (2008), Expression in Pop-Rock Music, Second Edition 2007), and The Beatles as Musicians, Volumes 1 and 2 (1999, 2001). Everett is a recipient of the Kjell Meling Award for Distinction in the Arts and Humanities, has served as Chair of the Society for Music Theory Publications Committee, and is past editorial board member of Music Theory Spectrum and Theory and Practice.

• Preface with AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Musical Expression of Identity in Terms of Biological Sex; The Self in Physiology and Psychology2. Gendered Identity3. Sexuality: Sexual Orientation4. Pop/Rock Erotics5. A Brainiac Amour: Command, Surrender, and Improvisation in Patti Smith’s “Land”Sources CitedOnline AppendixIndex

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