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Mediating the feminist superstar. Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift in Netflix documentaries -- Narratives about gender and feminism in a music industry #MeToo petition -- Gender equality, diversity, and algorithmic culture on music streaming services -- Keychange. Gender equality work in the popular music industries.

"When it was originally published in 1991, Feminine Endings was immediately controversial for its unprecedented intermingling of cultural criticism and musical studies, an approach that came to be called the "new musicology." Through case studies of works ranging from the canonical - operas by Monteverdi and Bizet - to the contemporary - the performance art of Diamanda Galas and popular songs by Madonna - Susan McClary focuses on the ways music produces images of gender, desire, pleasure, and the body, and explores the gender-based metaphors that circulate in discourse about music. This classic work features a new introduction that discusses the critical reception the book received and the debates it has inspired."--Jacket

"How can we engage critically with music video and its role in popular culture? What do contemporary music videos have to tell us about patterns of cultural identity today? Based around an eclectic series of vivid case studies, this fresh and timely examination is an entertaining and enlightening analysis of the forms, pleasures, and politics that music videos offer. In rethinking some classic approaches from film studies and popular music studies and connecting them with new debates about the current 'state' of feminism and feminist theory, Railton and Watson show why and how we should be studying music videos in the twenty-first century. Through its thorough overview of the music video as a visual medium, this is an ideal textbook for Media Studies students and all those with an interest in popular music and cultural studies. Key Features: Provides a framework for how to describe and analyse a music video. Uses case studies from internationally well-know artists, such as Kylie, Shakira and Beyonce to explore issues of representation of gender, sexuality and ethnicity. Draws on classic and contemporary videos from a range of musical styles, from Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera to Gorillaz and Metallica"--Provided by publisher

This paper attends to the 35 years of learning From Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Questionnaire, interview and focus group data from the 2006 festival are used to examine: the physical and social creation of feminist separatism at the site of the festival; lesbian cultures, and the lessons and learning of Michfest, all of which create contemporary womyn's space. The paper thus offers insights into some of the positive contemporary manifestations of lesbian feminist separatisms 'on the land' and concludes by contesting oppositional positioning of lesbian feminisms and post-feminism.

This article examines how cultural dynamics shape leaders' agency by investigating who is seen as articulating contemporary feminism. The author finds that many contemporary feminists have difficulty identifying leaders visible beyond their own communities, and when asked to identify those who are articulating contemporary feminism, many identify nationally known music icons. This results in "emotional mobilization," empowering feminists, but does not translate into wide-scale mobilization or into the development of widely recognized leaders. This work investigates how leadership in contemporary feminism departs from standard sociological ideas about how leaders shape and influence movements, with some of the most influential contemporary feminists taking an antileadership stance.

Introduction: for the Texas bama femme -- Family album: making lemonade out of marriage, motherhood, and southern tradition -- Queen bee blues -- Mama said shoot -- Most bomb pussy: toward a black feminist pleasure politics -- Love the grind -- Unapologetically femme -- Calling for freedom: black women's activism in the US south -- Freedom, too -- I came to slay -- Outro: I know Beyoncé loves black femmes

"This collection of new essays presents a detailed study of the music and persona of Beyoncé--arguably the world's biggest pop star. Topics include: the body politics of respectability; feminism, empowerment and gender in Beyoncé's lyrics; black female pleasure; and the changing face of celebrity motherhood"--