Gender and Memory: Remembering and forgetting the women of rock

Catherine Strong

Gender and Memory: Remembering and forgetting the women of rock

Catherine Strong

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This paper will examine the processes of remembering and forgetting that have surrounded the women involved in the grunge movement of the early 90s. Evidence will be drawn from present and past media sources, and from interviews with fans of grunge, to show how women are generally written out of historical accounts of rock music in order to reinscribe the creative dominance of men in this field. This, it is argued, is one of the ways in which the potential for societal change embedded in a cultural form such as grunge is diffused, and the status quo remains ultimately unchallenged.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Public Sociologies
Subtitle of host publication	Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons
Editors	T. McIntosh
Place of Publication	Auckland, NZ
Publisher	The Sociological Association of Australia (TASA)
Pages	1-7
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9782868691145
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)/Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Joint Conference - Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand Duration: 04 Dec 2007 → 07 Dec 2007

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Conference	The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)/Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Joint Conference
Country/Territory	New Zealand
Period	04/12/07 → 07/12/07

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