Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians - Interdisciplinary Research in Gender

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 More than Music: Female Rock Memoirs; Chapter 2 Shirley Collins and Calypso Rose: Grand Maternal Queens; Chapter 3 ‘Tilted’: The Queer Ages and Sideways Spaces of Janelle Monáe, Christine and the Queens and Anohni; Chapter 4 Ageing with Alt-Rock and Folk; Chapter 5 Rude Girls: Ageing, Race and Place; Chapter 6 'They’re Not Going to Give Me Stormzy': Ageing Matters Behind the Scenes; Afterword Age Stages, a Reflection; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Abigail Gardner is Reader in Music and Media at the University of Gloucestershire, UK and writes on ageing, temporality and marginality, particularly in relation to women and popular music. Her publications include Popular Music and Aging in Europe (2019), PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance (2015) and Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music (2012). She is a founder member of http://wamuog.co.uk, has led Erasmus + media and storytelling projects and produced 'In My Own Right', a documentary short (Zinder and Gardner, 2019) about two women's relationship in a small Orthodox community.

Summary

Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians focuses on ageing within contemporary popular music. It argues that context, genres, memoirs, racial politics and place all contribute to how women are 'aged' in popular music.

Product details

• Authors: Abigail Gardner, Gardner Abigail
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781138048065
• ISBN: 978-1-138-04806-5
• No. of pages: 154
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 245 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender; Print on demand; Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Music; Rock, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Pop Music, Gender studies: women, Popular Music, Gender studies: women and girls