She's So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music
- Author: Stras, Laurie
This collection is a significant contribution to the literature on gender identity and women's studies in music, not only because of its necessary readings on cultural idioms but also because... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction: she's so fine, or why girl singers (still) matter, Laurie Stras
- Part I 'Now that I'm Not a Kid Anymore': American Girls' Voices in the 50s and 60s: Voice of the beehive: vocal technique at the turn of the 1960s, Laurie Stras
- Vocal decorum: voice, body, and knowledge in the prodigious singer, Brenda Lee, Robynn J. Stilwell
- 'He hit me and I was glad': violence, masochism, and anger in girl group music, Jacqueline Warwick. Part II 'Everything's Coming Up Roses': British Girls in the Mid-60s: Dusty's hair, Annie J. Randall
- Brit girls: Sandie Shaw and the women of the British invasion, Patricia Juliana Smith
- Mary Hopkin and the deep throat of culture, Sarah Hill. Part III Girls on Top: Rock Chicks and Resistance at the End of the 60s: Whose tears go by? Marianne Faithfull at the dawn and twilight of rock culture, Norma Coates
- Bold soul trickster: the 60s Tina signifies, Susan Fast
- Response, Martha Mockus
- Select bibliography
- Indexes.
