Oliver Lovesey

Popular Music Autobiography (eBook, ePUB)

The Revolution in Life-Writing by 1960s' Musicians and Their Descendants

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book situates these works -- in the forms of formal autobiographies and memoirs, auto-fiction, songs, and self-fashioned museum exhibitions -- within the context of the recent expansion of interest in autobiography, disability, and celebrity studies. It argues that these writings express anxiety over musical originality and authenticity, and seeks to dispel their writers' celebrity status and particularly the association with a lack of seriousness. These works often constitute a meditation on the nature of postmodern fame within a celebrity-obsessed culture, and paradoxically they aim to regain the private self in a public forum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501355844
• Artikelnr.: 63036790

Autorenporträt

Oliver Lovesey is Professor of English in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada, and the author of a number of books on postcolonial and Victorian literature as well as on popular music studies. His most recent book is Popular Music Autobiography.