How Does Music Inform Our Notions of Gender? Music allows people to express their gender and sexuality in either an advert or a subtle way. The Spice Girls used the phrase ‘Girl Power’ which could not be less feminist in a ‘We are Women, step aside men’ way, ‘boy Power’ doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Girls in rock bands are women trying to fit into a male orientated environment by acting …showed first 75 words of 1576 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1576 total…representations primarily serve the interests of the male musicians who dominate heavy metal performance. It is also important to mention that in heavy metal, women are more interested through adaptations of ideology of romance. Bibliography Ruth Padel 2000 I’m A Man: sex, god, and rock ‘n’ roll. Faber Selwyn Pugh 1991 Women in Music. Cambridge Sheila Whitely 1997 Sexing the Groove: popular music and gender. Routledge Sheila Whitely 2000 Women and Popular Music: sexuality, identity and subjectivity. Routledge