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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop tells the stories a group of singers--Sandie Shaw, Cilla Black, Millie Small, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, and P.P. Arnold--whose singing voices transformed understandings of modern femininity in the 1960s. Often left out of histories of rock and pop music, the stories of these singers show us how the way we speak and sing are tied to the way we understand race and gender. This book analyzes musical recordings, television programs, and a wide range of media produced for young audiences in the 1960s to show how girl singers played a crucial role in the history of pop music.

Contents:

Cover

Freedom Girls

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Companion Website

Introduction: Vocal Manners for Moderns

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 Cilla 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

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-087993-9

0-19-087991-2

OCLC:

1273974286