Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians - Interdisciplinary Research in Gender

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Abigail Gardner, Gardner Abigail
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781138048065
• ISBN: 978-1-138-04806-5
• Pagine: 154
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 245 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender; Print On Demand; Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; 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