Aging and Popular Music in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367784676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 190 str.

Abigail Gardner; Ros Jennings

Opis

This book is a major exploration of age and popular music across Europe. Using a variety of methods, it explores a variety of sites and artists who record in several European languages, and genres including waltz music, electronica, pop, folk, rap, and the French ‘chanson.’

Spis treści

1. Âge Tendre’s ‘Tour de France’ 2. Silver Waltzers: André Rieu and European Popular Music 3. Art age: Kraftwerk and Björk 4. Queering Europe: Pop Music, Intergenerationality Liminality 5. Travelling Folk: Sam Lee and Songs across Time 6. Pan-European Stardom and Career Longevity in the Mainstream:Remembering Nana Mouskouri and Demis Roussos 7. ‘Shine on you Crazy Diamond/s’: Reversioning and Restorying Age and Race through Europe and across the Black Atlantic 8. Afterthoughts

O autorze

Abigail Gardner is Reader in Music and Media at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

Ros Jennings is Professor of Ageing, Culture and Media and Co-Director of the Centre for Women Ageing and Media (WAM) at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.