Women and Rock and Roll – Fans and Groupies

Reading: Maura Johnson, “How Not to Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide” Village Voice blog, 10 Feburary 2012 (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/02/sexism_women_in_rock_female_musicians.php)
Mavis Bayton, “Women and the Electric Guitar”

Listening: TBD

Tasks:

• Respond to Camille Paglia on Katy Perry and Taylor Swift [critical writing]
• Living women composers: examples [participation]
• Gender in heavy metal or rap [critical writing]
• How not to write about female musicians: examples [participation]
• Response paper to “Free to Be You and Me” [critical writing]
• Blueswomen: other views [research]
• Blackboard engagement [participation]
• Dressing for success (or failure!) [participation]
• Suffrage song analyses [critical writing]
• Chorus girls [research]