"Rock on"
Subtitle: women, ageing and popular music
By: edited by Ros Jennings and Abigail Gardner
Series: Ashgate popular and folk music series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781409428411; 9781409428428
Subjects: Aging; Popular music; Social aspects; Political aspects; Women musicians; Women in music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: "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.