Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences : Popular Music Autobiographies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Attah, Tom, editor.

Fairclough, Kirsty, editor.

Lloyd, Christian, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicians--Biography--Authorship.

Musicians.

Autobiography--Authorship.

Autobiography.

Creative nonfiction--Authorship.

Creative nonfiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

"Popular musicians' autobiographies are one of the most important ways that stars create, negotiate and perpetuate the realities and myths of their lived experiences for fans. Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, this collection explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through various expressive media as a dynamic factor in contemporary culture. These narratives function beyond thrilling fans with a sense of intimacy, as they attempt to create a narrative or reclamation on the musician's terms"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. New Selves, New Stories, New Scenes / Tom Attah, Kirsty Fairclough, and Christian Lloyd

Section I. Navigating Personal and Cultural Histories. Remixing Popular Music History : Two Producer Perspectives from 2022 / Mike Alleyne ; 'Frost and Fire' : Autobiographical Reticence in The Work of Tracey Thorn and Others / Peter Clandfield ; Rita Lee and the Phantom : Visible Editing and Experimental Technique in Women's Autobiography / Ana Leorne ; Re-evaluating the Past : Reclaiming Oppositional Popular Music Scenes Through Female Musicians' Autobiographical Writing / Sini Timonen ; Handcuffed to Andy Warhol, Meeting Madonna at LiveAid, Hell Bent for Leather at Fire Island : Considering Queerness in Rob Halford's "Confess" and "Biblical" Autobiographies / Mike Wyeld

Section II. Experimental, Multi-Modal, and Digital Narratives. 'We're brown and nobody knows where the Philippines is' : Cultural Identity in Fanny's Virtual Autobiography / Carljohnson Anacin ; High Blues Fidelity : The Fragmentary Autobiography of 'Queen' Victoria Spivey / Lawrence Davies ; A Life Spent Chasing the Band : Female Fans' Autobiographies / Mark Duffett ; Graphically Speaking : CUD, Graphic Memoir, Indie Authenticity, and Autofiction / Robert Edgar ; 'You'll need a good companion for this part of the ride' : Navigating Bruce Springsteen's sonic persona in the Born to Run audiobook / Richard Elliott ; 'You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for' : Fan Mediations of Autobiographical Lyrics in the Context of Taylor Swift's Digital Presence / Hannah Judson and Nas Ferns

Section III. Cultural Memory And Legacy : Musicians And Their Posthumous Or Rematerialised Lives. Popular Musicians' Homes as Rematerialised Autobiography : Jones, Jagger, Richards, Phelge, Lennon, McCartney / Christian Lloyd ; Gloria, Jennifer, and Camila : The Autobiographical Writing of Latinx pop Divas on Social Media from a Historiographic and Intersectional Perspective / Igor Lemos Moreira ; Autobiography, Genealogy, and Anthology: The Beatles and Autobiography - 'The Beat Goes On' / Kenneth Longden ; Retro-Futuristic 'ABBAtars' : Interpreting New Performer-Audience Relationships / Abigail May Parker ; 'You Know I'm No Good' : Cultural Memory, Archive, Ephemera, and (Re)writing the Legacy of Amy Winehouse / Leanne Weston

Section IIII. Performance, Identity, and Self-Representation in Music. 'A tidal wave of dopesickness' : Addiction, Music and Pathography in Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards and Weep / Fraser Mann ; 'It's not an imitation, it's a becoming' : Lady Gaga's Wildean Self-Representations / Victoria Roskams ; Turbulent Flow : Autobiography through Family in the Lyrics of Kendrick Lamar / Sameer Thomas ; Bob Stanley : I'll be Your Mirror / Jason Wood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9798765108444

9798765108420

9798765108437

OCLC:

1519991303