'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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Jennings, Ros, Gardner, Abigail
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Series:	Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Subjects:	Women musicians. Women in music. Aging. Popular music > Political aspects. Popular music > Social aspects. MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.