Too much too young : popular music, age and gender /
Whiteley, Sheila, 1941-
Too much too young : popular music, age and gender / Sheila Whiteley. - xvi, 243 pages : music ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-216) and index. Includes discography.
Nursery crymes -- Little girls -- Little boys -- Postscript : life after death : old girls and old boys. Pt. I. Pt. II. Pt. III.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
0415310296 9780415310291 0415310288 9780415310284
2002155140
Child musicians--Social conditions--20th century.
Musicians--Social conditions--20th century.
ML3795 / .W46 2005
781.640835
Too much too young : popular music, age and gender / Sheila Whiteley. - xvi, 243 pages : music ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-216) and index. Includes discography.
Nursery crymes -- Little girls -- Little boys -- Postscript : life after death : old girls and old boys. Pt. I. Pt. II. Pt. III.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
0415310296 9780415310291 0415310288 9780415310284
2002155140
Child musicians--Social conditions--20th century.
Musicians--Social conditions--20th century.
ML3795 / .W46 2005
781.640835