Music, gender, sexuality (nonfiction)
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Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals
by:
Bonnie J. Morris
4.34 avg rating — 44 ratings 
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Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music
by:
John Gill
3.36 avg rating — 36 ratings 
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Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music
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Susan C. Cook
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Songs of the Suffragists: Lyrics of American Feminism from 1850 to 2020 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
by:
Sara Marcus
3.95 avg rating — 8,796 ratings 
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Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades
by:
Evelyn Alloy
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender
by:
Ellen Koskoff
4.32 avg rating — 38 ratings 
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The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire 3.94 avg rating — 310 ratings
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The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era
by:
Helen Reddington
3.70 avg rating — 43 ratings 21. 
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The Women of Country Music: A Reader
by:
Charles K. Wolfe
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 24. 
Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration
by:
Lisa Barg
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 27. 
The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Oxford Handbooks)
by:
John Richardson
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings 27. 
Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000
by:
Mary A. Bufwack
4.33 avg rating — 67 ratings 27. 
Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal
by:
John Richardson
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 30. 
Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and the Women They Loved
by:
Chris O'Dell
3.95 avg rating — 1,830 ratings 30. 
Non tocchiamo questo tasto. Musica classica e mondo queer
by:
Luca Ciammarughi
3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings 33. 
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Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap
by:
Evelyn McDonnell
4.04 avg rating — 230 ratings 33. 
Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology
by:
Philip Brett
4.19 avg rating — 64 ratings 36. 
Critical Musicological Reflections: Essays in Honour of Derek B. Scott
by:
Derek B. Scott
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 36. 
Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of extraordinary Women and Gibson's "Banner" Guitars of WWII
by:
John Thomas
3.86 avg rating — 93 ratings 
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Ruth Feldstein
3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings 40. 
Prince: The Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
by:
Stan Hawkins
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 40. 
Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
by:
Stan Hawkins
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 44. 
From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The British Pop Dandy (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
by:
Stan Hawkins
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 46. 
Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West
by:
Chris Enss
3.21 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them
by:
Buzzy Jackson
3.87 avg rating — 85 ratings 
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Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity
by:
Sheila Whiteley
3.91 avg rating — 46 ratings 
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Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical (Oxford Handbooks)
by:
Raymond Knapp
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 56. 
We Oughta Know (How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music)
by:
Andrea Warner
3.62 avg rating — 124 ratings 58. 
Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
by:
Pete Seeger
4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings 59. 
Madonna's Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917
by:
Dale Cockrell
3.37 avg rating — 71 ratings 
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Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
by:
Ann Powers
3.76 avg rating — 451 ratings 
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Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
by:
Gayle Wald
4.07 avg rating — 340 ratings 69. 
Gender and Qualitative Methods (Introducing Qualitative Methods series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 12: Music (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 12)
by:
Bill C. Malone
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 71. 
The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style
by:
Caryl Flinn
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 71. 
Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot
by:
Vivien Goldman
3.77 avg rating — 763 ratings 
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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
by:
Neal Gabler
3.64 avg rating — 176 ratings 
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings 77. 
Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, Series Number 13)
by:
Lawrence Kramer
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 77. 
Tappin' at the Apollo: The African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper
by:
Cheryl M. Willis
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 79. 
After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture
by:
Lawrence Kramer
3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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From the Erotic to the Demonic: On Critical Musicology
by:
Derek B. Scott
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film
by:
Amy Herzog
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music
by:
Mark Spicer
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 87. 
The Most Beautiful Girl: A True Story of a Dad, A Daughter and the Healing Power of Music
by:
Tamara Saviano
4.09 avg rating — 54 ratings 
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Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera
by:
Mary Ann Smart
3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
by:
Tricia Rose
4.10 avg rating — 831 ratings 
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Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
by:
Naomi André
3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings 
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation
by:
Sheila Weller
3.75 avg rating — 6,225 ratings 
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Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
by:
Hazel Dickens
4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings