Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences

Popular Music Autobiographies
Herausgeber: Attah, Tom; Lloyd, Christian; Fairclough, Kirsty

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Produktbeschreibung

"Popular musicians' autobiographies are one of the most important ways that stars create, negotiate and perpetuate the realities and myths of their lived experiences for fans. Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, this collection explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through various expressive media as a dynamic factor in contemporary culture. These narratives function beyond thrilling fans with a sense of intimacy, as they attempt to create a narrative or reclamation on the musician's terms"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765108413
• Artikelnr.: 72660107

Autorenporträt

Tom Attah is Associate Professor of Popular Music Performance at Leeds Arts University, UK. He has published many chapters and journal articles on Popular Music and Popular Culture, and has produced public-facing mainstream broadcast work on blues music for the BBC. As a creative musician, he has toured internationally and has composed original works for public projects. He is chair of the Popular Music Study group of the Royal Musical Association. Recent published chapters include work on Prince (Bloomsbury, 2020), Robert Johnson (2022), Little Richard (Bloomsbury, 2022), and has co-edited a text on popular music narratives (2019). Kirsty Fairclough is Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange and Reader in Screen Studies at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is the co-editor of The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop (2013), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (Bloomsbury, 2016), Music/Video: Forms, Aesthetics, Media (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality and American Television (2020), Prince and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2020), and author of the forthcoming Beyoncé: Celebrity Feminism and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury). She is the curator of Sound and Vision: Pop Stars on Film and In Her View: Women Documentary Filmmakers film seasons at HOME, Manchester and Chair of Manchester Jazz Festival. Christian Lloyd has taught and published on a wide range of subjects in popular and literary cultures. He was involved in researching the reconstruction of Jimi Hendrix's London flat and wrote the accompanying book: Hendrix at Home: a Bluesman in Mayfair (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: New Selves, New Stories, New Scenes
Tom Attah (Leeds Arts University, UK), Kirsty Fairclough (Manchester
Metropolitan University, UK) and Christian Lloyd (Queen's University,
Canada)
Section I: Navigating Personal and Cultural Histories
1. Remixing Popular Music History: Two Producer Perspectives from 2022
Mike Alleyne (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
2. 'Frost and Fire': Autobiographical Reticence in The Work of Tracey Thorn
and Others
Peter Clandfield (MacEwan University, Canada)
3. Rita Lee and the Phantom: Visible Editing and Experimental Technique in
Women's Autobiography
Ana Leorne (Independent, Paris)
4. Re-evaluating the Past: Reclaiming Oppositional Popular Music Scenes
Through Female Musicians' Autobiographical Writing
Sini Timonen (Confetti London, UK)
5. Handcuffed to Andy Warhol, Meeting Madonna at LiveAid, Hell Bent for
Leather at Fire Island: Considering Queerness in Rob Halford's "Confess"
and "Biblical" Autobiographies
Mike Wyeld (London College of Communication, UK)
Section II: Experimental, Multi-Modal, and Digital Narratives
6. 'We're brown and nobody knows where the Philippines is': Cultural
Identity in Fanny's Virtual Autobiography
Carljohnson Anacin (Griffith University, Australia)
7. High Blues Fidelity: The Fragmentary Autobiography of 'Queen' Victoria
Spivey (1906-1976)
Lawrence Davies (King's College London, UK)
8. A Life Spent Chasing the Band: Female Fans' Autobiographies
Mark Duffett (University of Chester, UK)
9. Graphically Speaking: CUD, Graphic Memoir, Indie Authenticity, and
Autofiction
Robert Edgar (York St John University, UK)
10. 'You'll need a good companion for this part of the ride': Navigating
Bruce Springsteen's sonic persona in the Born to Run audiobook
Richard Elliott (Newcastle University, UK)
11. 'You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered
for': Fan Mediations of Autobiographical Lyrics in the Context of Taylor
Swift's Digital Presence
Hannah Judson (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) and Nas Ferns (SUNY Stony Brook, USA)
Section III: Cultural Memory And Legacy: Musicians And Their Posthumous Or
Rematerialised Lives
12. Popular Musicians' Homes as Rematerialised Autobiography: Jones,
Jagger, Richards, Phelge, Lennon, McCartney
Christian Lloyd (Queen's University, Canada)
13. Gloria, Jennifer, and Camila: The Autobiographical Writing of Latinx
pop Divas on Social Media from a Historiographic and Intersectional
Perspective
Igor Lemos Moreira (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)
14. Autobiography, Genealogy, and Anthology: The Beatles and Autobiography
- 'The Beat Goes On'
Kenneth Longden (University of Salford, UK)
15. Retro-Futuristic 'ABBAtars': Interpreting New Performer-Audience
Relationships
Abigail May Parker (University of Nottingham, UK)
16. 'You Know I'm No Good': Cultural Memory, Archive, Ephemera, and
(Re)writing the Legacy of Amy Winehouse
Leanne Weston (Independent, UK)
Section IIII: Performance, Identity, and Self-Representation in Music
17. 'A tidal wave of dopesickness': Addiction, Music and Pathography in
Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards and Weep
Fraser Mann (York St. John University, UK)
18. 'It's not an imitation, it's a becoming': Lady Gaga's Wildean
Self-Representations
Victoria Roskams (University of Oxford, UK)
19. Turbulent Flow: Autobiography through Family in the Lyrics of Kendrick
Lamar
Sameer Thomas (Ashoka University, India)
20. Bob Stanley: I'll be Your Mirror
Jason Wood (British Film Institute, UK)
List of Contributors
Index