Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s

While there were over 1500 girl groups recorded in the sixties -- 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. Girl Groups, Girl Culture is a landmark study of this important pop music and cultural phenomenon. Warwick is the first writer to address sixties 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.

Author: Jacqueline Warwick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/20/2007
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.49w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780415971133

About the Author

Jacqueline Warwick is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Dalhousie University, Canada, where she specializes in music history and popular music. She is an active member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and has presented papers at numerous conferences in North America and Europe.