Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians (Paperback)

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. Framing contemporary female musicians as canonical grandmothers, Rude Girls, neo-Afrofuturist and memoirists settling accounts, the book gives us some respite from a decline or denial narrative and introduces a dynamism into ageing. Female rock memoirs are age-appropriate survival stories that reframe the histories of punk and independent rock music. Old age has a functional and canonical 'place' in the work of Shirley Collins and Calypso Rose. Janelle Monae, Christine and the Queens and Anohni perform 'queer' age, specifically a kind of 'going beyond' both corporeal and temporal borders. Genres age, and the book introduces the idea of the time-crunch; an encounter between an embodied, represented age and a genre-age, which is, itself, produced through historicity and aesthetics. Lastly the book goes behind the scenes to draw on interviews and questionnaires with 19 women involved in the contemporary British and American popular music industry; DIY and ex-musicians, producers, music publishers, music journalists and audio engineers. Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians is a vital intergenerational feminist viewpoint for researchers and students in gender studies, popular music, popular culture, media studies, cultural studies and ageing studies.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
Release date:	June 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Abigail Gardner
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	154
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-209153-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > General Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
LSN:	1-03-209153-3
Barcode:	9781032091532

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