Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music is a multidisciplinary study of Anglo-American rock and pop music over the last six decades. Following the 1960s' sexual revolution, and helped by the advent of the birth control pill, rock and pop has continued to map the societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies. Although scholarship has well established how early rock and roll encouraged and affected issues of sex in the baby boomers' generation, this book asks how subsequent pop music has maintained that tradition. The text discusses the gendered performances and biographical experiences of individual musicians, including Prince, Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa, and Patti Smith, and how their invented personae contribute to musical representations of sexuality. It evaluates lyric structure and symbolic language of these artists, and overall emphasizes how pop music, while a commodity art form, reflects the diversity of human sex and gender.