Abigail Gardner

'Rock On': Women, Ageing and Popular Music

Herausgeber: Jennings, Ros

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges. Taking a broadly feminist perspective, 'Rock On': Women, Ageing and Popular Music shifts popular music studies in a new direction. Focussing on British, American and Latina women performers and ageing, the collection investigates the cultural work performed by artists such as Shirley Bassey, Madonna, Celia Cruz, Courtney Love, Annie Lennox and Lady Gaga.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781409428411
• ISBN-10: 1409428419
• Artikelnr.: 44707528

Autorenporträt

Abigail Gardner, Ros Jennings

Inhaltsangabe

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.