Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians (Interdisciplinary Research in Gender)

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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 Monße, 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.


  • | Author: Abigail Gardner
  • | Publisher: Routledge
  • | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2021
  • | Number of Pages: 154 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1032091533
  • | ISBN-13: 9781032091532
Author:
Abigail Gardner
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
Jun 30, 2021
Number of pages:
154 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032091533
ISBN-13:
9781032091532