Rock On : Women, Ageing and Popular Music
Women, Ageing and Popular Music
- Author: Gardner, Abigail
- Editor: Jennings, Ros
Timely and pertinent, the collection successfully opens up a space where the ageing female body traverses musical discourses of identity and subjectivity, always and already marked by gender,... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction: women, ageing and popular music, Ros Jennings and Abigail Gardner
- Part I 'Renewal, Recycling and Renegotiation': Madonna: like a crone, Lucy O'Brien
- It's all just a little bit of history repeating: pop-stars, audiences, performance and ageing - exploring the performance strategies of Shirley Bassey and Petula Clark, Ros Jennings
- Long live the Queen!: Celia Cruz's longevity as a counterpoint of tradition and change, Delia Poey
- Framing Grace: shock and awe at the ageless black body, Abigail Gardner. Part II 'It's Not Over...': Mom rock? Media representations of 'mothers who rock', Norma Coates
- 27 for ever: Kristen Pfaff and the coverage of death as the re-presentation of a gendered musical life, Paula Hearsum
- 'I'd stage-dive, but I'm far too elderly': Courtney Love and expectations of femininity and ageing, Catherine Strong
- Rebel without a pause: the continuity of controversy in Madonna's contemporary music videos, Paul Watson and Diane Railton
- Bibliography
- Index.