Too Much Too Young: Popular Music Age and Gender

ISBN-13: 9780415310284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 236 str.

Sheila Whiteley

Opis

Too Much Too Young investigates how age and gender have shaped the careers and images of pop music stars, examining the role of youth and youthfulness in pop music through a series of themed case studies.Sheila Whiteley begins by investigating the exploitation of child stars such as Brenda Lee and Michael Jackson, offering a psychoanalytic reading of the relationship between child star and oppressive manager, and looks at the current glut of boy- and girl- bands and stars in the mould of Britney Spears to examine the continuing fatal attraction of stardom for adolescents.Whiteley then considers the star images of female singer-songwriters Kate Bush, Tori Amos and Bjork, whose little girl voices and characterization by the media suggests a girlish femininity which is often at odds with the intentions of their musical output.She then moves on to explore the rock/pop divide as it affects the image of male performers, considering why male stars usually fall into the category of wild boys such as Kurt Cobain or Jim Morrison, or nice boys like Cliff Richard, The Monkees and Wham ;Whiteley ends by asking what happens to stars who set so much store by manipulations of youthfulne

Spis treści

Introduction Part One : Nursery Crymes Little Miss Dynamite; The Boy Behind The Mask; Father... I Want To Kill You: The Birth of the Lizard King; Monsters and Ogres; When Will They Ever Learn? Part Two : Little Girls Introduction; Kate Bush: The Red Shoes; Tori Amos: Lady of the Rings; Bjork: The Icelandic Elf; Little Girls Revisited Part Three: Little Boys Introduction: The Rules of the Game; Age, Identity and the Slippery Divide of the Rock/Pop Binary; Who's That Boy? Death And My Cock; 'Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky; Myth and Reality; Boys Just Wanna Be Boys; The Young Ones; Somebody Wants To Be Wanted; I'm A Believer; Rollermania; Do What U Like? Pop Idols Postscript. Life After Death: Old Girls and Old Boys Notes Bibliography Discography

O autorze

Sheila Whiteley