Too much too young
Subtitle: popular music, age, and gender
By: Sheila Whiteley.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Child musicians -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Musicians -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Description: "Too Much Too Young explores the relationship between popular music, age and gender, examining the role of youth and youthfulness through a series of themed case studies. Sheila Whiteley begins by investigating the exploitation of young artists such as Brenda Lee and Michael Jackson, offering a psychoanalytic reading of the relationship between child star and oppressive manager, and looks at the current glut of boy- and girl-bands and solo performers in the mould of Britney Spears, to examine the continuing fatal fascination of stardom for adolescents."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and discography (p.   ).
Table of contents: title: Nursery crymes; title: Little girls; title: And little boys.