Glenn Fosbraey is the Head of English, Creative Writing, and American Studies at The University of Winchester, UK, and specialises in the academic study of song lyrics. He has published a number of chapters and articles on the subject and co-wrote Writing Song Lyrics: Creative and Critical Approaches (2019).Nicola Puckey is a Senior Lecturer in English Language, English Linguistics, and Forensic Linguistics at The University of Winchester, UK. Her specialisms include language, gender and sexuality, and music as a form of discourse.

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• 1. Introduction; Glenn Fosbraey.- 2. How Female is the Future?: Undoing Sexism in Contemporary Metal Music; Coco d'Hont.- 3. The Power of Boy Pussy: The dichotomy between liberation and objectification in Queer Hip-Hop/Rap in the 2000’s; Kenneth Norwood.- 4. See the Signs: Justin Timberlake and the Pretence of Romance; Racheal Harris.- 5. The Initiation: Re-negotiating Masculinity in Queer Music Video; Ryann Donnelly.- 6. “All of my life, just like I was one of them”: Transitioning punk; Gareth Schott.- 7. Misogyny and Erotic Pleasure in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’; Suman Mishra.- 8. “Let it Enfold You”: Screaming, Masculinity, and the Loss of Emotional Control in Post-Millennium Emo; Ryan J. Mack.- 9. Should real love hurt? The eroticisation of dominance, submission and coercive control in contemporary pop music; Natasha Mulvihill.- 10. Lady Lazarus: the death (and rebirth) of a gender revolutionary; Alec Charles.- 11. Immortal Technique and the Radical Reimagining of Masculinity on the Street; Heather Stewart.- 12. From pimpology to pimpologia: a comparative analysis of pimp rap in the United States and Italy; Margherita Angelucci and Wissal Houbabi.- 13. Nicki Minaj:  Ownership, control, and responsibility?; Glenn Fosbraey.