A rare, behind-the-scenes critical analysis of the pop music industry.
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"A riveting and vital expose of the transformation of female artists into pop stars and brands. With expert research, dramatic examples, and powerful writing, Kristin Lieb pulls back the curtain of the music industry and reveals the damage done to all women by the exploitation and objectification of a few.”

Jean Kilbourne, Senior Scholar, Wellesley Center for Women, and creator of the film series Killing Us Softly
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“(Lieb) immersed us in a pop music Slough of Despond, a place populated by branders, packagers, and synergists who exploit talented female musicians by swaddling them in the industrial norms of gender and sexuality in the pursuit of profit... This remains the most complete and insightful treatment of the subject."

Robert Thompson, Syracuse University, Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, Director
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“In this superbly written and incisively argued second edition, Kristin Lieb draws with authority on concepts, frameworks, and theories from marketing, communications, sociology, and social psychology, and brings them into active conversation with important works from feminist, gender, queer, celebrity, and popular culture studies."

Jane Caputi, Professor, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Communication & Media, Florida Atlantic University
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“Replete with good girls, temptresses, and whores, this book will resonate with students.”

Carol M. Liebler, Communication,
Syracuse University
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“Groundbreaking... a ‘must-read’ for anybody interested in the entertainment industry.”

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“I heartily recommend this lucid, intelligent and excellent study and welcome it as a valuable theoretical and research model, and as a work that will greatly enhance mine and others’ communication of these ideas in both the graduate and undergraduate classroom."

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“... an additional audience for this text may be principles of advertising classes. This book will challenge some of the assumptions that may guide such curriculum, but nevertheless are important for students to consider as they prepare to enter the advertising profession.”

Barbara A. Pickering,
University of Nebraska at Omaha
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About Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry

Emerson College Professor Kristin Lieb discusses her book, Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry: The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars, released by Routledge in 2013.

 

 

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