Keywords
blues
sex
gender
myth P.J. Harvey
blues
seks
płeć
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Abstract
The article’s goal is to interpret the selected songs from P.J. Harvey’s album To Bring You My Love (1995). On the album, the singer-songwriter struggles with the tradition of blues, mostly with its literary myths. In her lyrics, Harvey emphasizes the prevalent eroticism and violence present in blues mythologies—often male but, in some cases, subversively female. This tradition becomes the foundation on which she manages to filter those mythologies and simultaneously reintroduce the female dimension to this music.
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