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Rhodes, Lisa Louise. "Groupies, Girls, and Chicks: Articles On Women Musicians and Fans in Rolling Stone and Selected Other Mainstream Magazines, 1967-1972," University of Texas at Austin, December 2001.
1967 was a watershed year for American women in popular music. Their role in music shifted from that of primarily serving as decoration to functioning as significant lead singers and musicians. This dissertation is primarily a study of articles written about female pop musicians and female fans in the print media, especially at Rolling Stone and to a lesser extent several other selected mainstream magazines had on popular culture representations of women in these roles as a result of its coverage of the rock scene. This dissertation also contains an account of the development of the term “groupie” into popular music’s slang lexicon. Beginning with the publication of Rolling Stone’s “Groupie Issue” in 1969, the term became popularized through various articles. Though these articles focused on the groupies, none was actually produced by a groupie. However, in these articles are negotiations between the groupies (who were primarily female) and those who were responsible for the creation of these works (primarily male). This dissertation explored that negotiation and its ramifications for public discourse about the sexes and sexuality. This work is primarily a feminist, postmodern textual analysis of primary sources, although it does include some present-day interviews with a few of the writers and musicians whose work is addressed in this dissertation.
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