Electrifying the Beat: Rhythm Guitar Performances of Keith Richards, Joan Jett, and Nile Rodgers
2020; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/19401159.2020.1740432
ISSN1940-1167
Autores Tópico(s)Diverse Musicological Studies
ResumoBy closely studying three key musicians—Keith Richards, Joan Jett, and Nile Rodgers—I argue that rhythm guitar playing, while maintaining some of rock music’s appropriation of blackness and coding as masculine, allows for a more fluid understanding of sound and genre. Richards’s pioneering rhythm technique defined rock vis-à-vis blues and largely relied on traditional understandings of racialized identity and gender, whereas Joan Jett consciously tweaked rock’s (and punk’s) masculinity for her own liberation, and Nile Rodgers promoted a guitar sound that blended rock with disco and pop more open to black and gay discourse.
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