She's So Fine

Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music
Herausgeber: Stras, Laurie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

She's So Fine explores the music, reception and cultural significance of 1960s girl singers and girl groups in the US and the UK. Using approaches from the fields of musicology, women's studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies, this volume is the first interdisciplinary work to link close musical readings with rigorous cultural analysis in the treatment of artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Crystals, The Blossoms, Brenda Lee, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Tina Turner, and Marianne Faithfull. Currently available studies of 1960s girl groups/girl singers fall into one of three categories: industry-generated accounts of the music's production and sales, sociological commentaries, or omnibus chronologies/discographies. She's So Fine, by contrast, focuses on clearly defined themes via case studies of selected artists. Within this analytical rather than historically comprehensive framework, this book presents new research and original observations on the 60s girl group/girl singer phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781409436652
• ISBN-10: 1409436659
• Artikelnr.: 36030853

Autorenporträt

Dr Laurie Stras, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Southampton, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: she's so fine
or why girl singers (still) matter
Laurie Stras; Part I 'Now that I'm Not a Kid Anymore': American Girls' Voices in the 50s and 60s: Voice of the beehive: vocal technique at the turn of the 1960s
Laurie Stras; Vocal decorum: voice
body
and knowledge in the prodigious singer
Brenda Lee
Robynn J. Stilwell; 'He hit me and I was glad': violence
masochism
and anger in girl group music
Jacqueline Warwick. Part II 'Everything's Coming Up Roses': British Girls in the Mid-60s: Dusty's hair
Annie J. Randall; Brit girls: Sandie Shaw and the women of the British invasion
Patricia Juliana Smith; Mary Hopkin and the deep throat of culture
Sarah Hill. Part III Girls on Top: Rock Chicks and Resistance at the End of the 60s: Whose tears go by? Marianne Faithfull at the dawn and twilight of rock culture
Norma Coates; Bold soul trickster: the 60s Tina signifies
Susan Fast; Response
Martha Mockus; Select bibliography; Indexes.