Coming to the fore: The audibility of women’s sexual pleasure in popular music and the sexual revolution

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Coming to the fore: The audibility of women’s sexual pleasure in popular music and the sexual revolution

This paper examines the genre of tracks centred around the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s which include aural representations of female sexual pleasure. The two most important tracks, and the ones on which this paper focuses, are Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg ‘Je t’aime . . . moi non plus’ and Donna...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stratton, Jon
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2014
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10245

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