Freedom girls : voicing femininity in 1960s British pop / Alexandra M. Apolloni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apolloni, Alexandra M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Great Britain--1961-1970--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Women singers--Great Britain.

Women singers.

Femininity in music.

Femininity in popular culture--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Femininity in popular culture.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This introduction positions the history of girl and young women singers in the 1960s in the context of broader histories of vocal training; ideas about voice, respectability, and expressivity; and the models of youthful femininity that were emergent in 1960s Britain. It connects this study to the emerging field of Voice Studies and provide an overview of the book's chapters"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. ORDINARY, EXTRAORDINARY VOICES

1. Chart Chicks and Gear Girls: The Limits of Mod Femininity

2. "A Girl in a Million, Just Like a Million": Sandie Shaw and Ordinary Girlhood

3. Sounding Like Liverpool: Region, Memory, and Cilia Black's Accent

II. TRANSATLANTIC VOICES

4. England Meets Jamaica's Lollipop Girl: Millie Small, Voice, and Migration

5. Race, Self-Invention, and Dusty Springfield's Voice

III. SEX, VOICE, AND ROCK AND ROLL

6. The Last Remaining Virgin in London: Lulu, Whiteness, and Youth

7. Sex, Freedom, and Marianne Faithfull's Voice in the Afterlight of the 1960s

8. Remembering Rock and Roll with P. P. Arnold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Apolloni, Alexandra M., Freedom girls

ISBN:

9780190879907

0190879904

9780190879891

0190879890

OCLC:

1255689200

Publisher Number:

99989081069