'Rock on' : women, ageing and popular music /
For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges. Taking a broadly feminist perspective, 'Rock On': women, ageing and popular music shifts popular music stud...
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| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2012]
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| Series: | Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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Table of Contents:
- Renewal, recycling and renegotiation. Madonna : like a crone / Lucy O'Brien ; It's all just a little bit of history repeating : pop stars, audiences, performance and ageing : exploring the performance strategies of Shirley Bassey and Petula Clark / Ros Jennings ; Long live the queen! : Celia Cruz's longevity as a counterpoint of tradition and change / Delia Poey ; Framing Grace : shock and awe at the ageless black body / Abigail Gardner
- "It's not over..." Mom rock? Media representations of 'mothers who rock' / Norma Coates ; 27 forever : Kristen Pfaff and the coverage of death as the re-presentation of a gendered musical life / Paula Hearsum ; "I'd stage-dive, but I'm far too elderly" : Courtney Love and expectations of femininity and ageing / Catherine Strong ; Rebel without a pause : the continuity of controversy in Madonna's contemporary music videos / Paul Watson and Diane Railton.