Girl groups, girl culture : popular music and identity in the 1960s /
Jacqueline Warwick.
- xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.
Girl talk: The emerging girl group sound -- The voice of the girl -- Part II. A brand new dance now: Embodying girlness -- Restraint and violence -- Uniformity and masquerade -- He makes me say things I don't want to say: Record producers and the politics of production -- Carole King and Ellie Greenwich -- Up against the wall of sound -- Look here girls, and take this advice: Respectability versus rock 'n' roll -- Motown and the politics of crossover success -- Mothers and daughters -- Out in the streets: Group identity and public space -- Rebellion and girldom -- Girl groups, the road, and public record. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part III. 6. 7. 8. Part IV. 9. 10. 11. Part V. 12. 13. 14.
""Then He Kissed Me"... "He's A Rebel"... "Chains"... "Stop! In the Name of Love" -- these songs capture the spirit of an era and an image of "girlhood" in post-World War II America that still reverberates today. While there were over 1500 girl groups recorded in the '60s--including key hitmakers like the Ronettes, the Supremes, and the Shirelles--studies of girl-group music that address race, gender, class, and sexuality have only just begun to appear. Warwick is the first writer to address '60s girl group music from the perspective of its most significant audience--teenage girls--drawing on current research in psychology and sociology to explore the important place of this repertoire in the emotional development of young girls of the baby boom generation. Girl Groups, Girl Culture will stand as a landmark study of this important pop music and cultural phenomenon. It promises to be a classic work in American musicology and cultural studies."--Publisher description.
0415971128 9780415971126 0415971136 9780415971133
2006031350
Rock music--History and criticism--1961-1970 Girl groups (Musical groups)--History and criticism