Girl groups, girl culture : popular music and identity in the 1960s / Jacqueline Warwick.
| Author/creator |
Warwick, Jacqueline C., 1969- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, ©2007. |
| Description | xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Girl talk -- The emerging girl group sound -- The voice of the girl -- A brand new dance now -- Embodying girlness -- Restraint and violence -- Uniformity and masquerade -- He makes me say things I dont want to say -- Record producers and the politics of production -- Carole King and Ellie Greenwich -- Up against the wall of sound -- Look here, girls, and take this advice -- Respectability versus rock'n'roll -- Motown and the politics of crossover success -- Mothers and daughters -- Out in the streets -- Group identity and public space -- Rebellion and girldom -- Girl groups, the road, and public record. |
| Abstract | Then He Kissed Me, He's A Rebel, Chains, Stop! In the Name of Love: all these songs capture the spirit of an era and an image of 'girlhood' in post-World War II America that still reverberates today. While there were over 1500 girl groups recorded in the '60s--including key hitmakers like the Ronettes, the Supremes, and the Shirelles--studies of girl-group music that address race, gender, class, and sexuality have only just begun to appear. The author is the first writer to address '60s girl group music from the perspective of its most significant audience--teenage girls--drawing on current research in psychology and sociology to explore the important place of this repertoire in the emotional development of young girls of the baby boom generation. This book stands as a landmark study of this important pop music and cultural phenomenon. It promises to be a classic work in American musicology and cultural studies. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006031350 |
| ISBN | 0415971128 |
| ISBN | 9780415971126 |
| ISBN | 0415971136 |
| ISBN | 9780415971133 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3534 .W35 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |