Fashion and music / Janice Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Janice, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Social aspects.

Popular music.

Musicians--Clothing.

Musicians.

Human body in popular culture.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

ix, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2011.

Summary:

The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity, taste and consumption. Using a range of historical and contemporary examples, this book uncovers the ways in which fashion and music have worked to shape contemporary attitudes to bodies and identities.

Focusing on performers as much as fans, on the mainstream as much as the underground, Fashion and Music provides a lens through which to examine themes of gender, sexuality, ageing and youth, ethnicity, body image, consumer culture, fandom and postmodernity. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Branding, Fashion and Music 11

2 Fans, Music, Clothes and Consumption 29

3 Witchy Women: Fashioning the Womanly Body of the Female Singer-Songwriter 51

4 White Suited Men: Style, Masculinity and the Boyband 71

5 Dressing Your Age: Fashion, the Body and the Ageing Music Star 91

6 Clothes and Cultural Identities: Music, Ethnicity and Nation 109

7 Spectacle and Sexuality: Music, Clothes and Queer Bodies 131.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847884138

1847884148

9781847884145

184788413X

OCLC:

745538536