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Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity and Popular Music. (Book Reviews: Popular Musics).(Book Review)

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Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity and Popular Music. By Lori Burns and Melisse Lafrance. (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture.) New York: Routledge, 2002. [xix, 255 p. ISBN 0-8153-3553-9. $85 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8153-3554-7. $24.95 (pbk.).] Bibliography, index.

As an academic with a shared interest in popular music, feminism, and identity, I am always intrigued by new publications in the field. For a start, they are certainly needed. Popular music is still a relatively new area of study, and international publishing houses such as Routledge have been instrumental in creating a vital source of informative texts for researchers and students alike. It is also ...

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