Unsilenced

"This book explores how women who have experienced gender-based violence within the music industry represent and construct this violence through their creative and public-facing outputs. Analysis of three key case studies - Kesha, Lingua Ignota, and Alice Glass - demonstrates that gender-based violence influences creative productions. The representation of this abuse is identified in the artists' music, lyrics, and visual accompaniments and the incorporation of their experiences and responses to abuse in their public personas. The authors uncover what it is about the music industry itself that might facilitate or enable such experiences and perpetuate abuse"--

Rosemary Lucy Hill is an independent scholar, formerly of the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is the author of Gender, Metal and the Media: Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music (2016) and many articles about feminism, music and big data. She is the co-series editor of Advances in Metal Music and Culture. She is the lead vocalist in a feminist folk metal band and currently writing her first novel.
Bianca Fileborn is an Associate Professor in Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Their work is broadly concerned with interrogating the intersections of identity, space, place, culture and experiences of violence and justice. They are the author of Reclaiming the Night-Time Economy: Unwanted Sexual Attention in Pubs and Clubs (2016) and co-editor of #MeToo and the Politics of Social Change (2019).
Catherine Strong is an Associate Professor in the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. Among her publications are Grunge: Music and Memory (2011), Music City Melbourne (2022), and Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry (2021, edited with Sarah Raine). Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. She is co-editor of Popular Music History journal and an associate editor for DIY, Alternative Cultures and Society journal.