Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity

ISBN-13: 9780367873578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 300 str.

Jacqueline Warwick; Allison Adrian

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This book explores the girl’s voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers. It illuminates the way ideals of girlhood are historically specific, and the way adults frame and construct girlhood to both valorize and vilify girls and women. Interrogating popular music,

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PART I
Voice and Agency

1 　I’m with the Band: Redefining Young Feminism 15 LUCY O’BRIEN

2 　Girls at Work: Gendered Identities, Sex Segregation,
and Employment Experiences in the Music Industry 37 MARION LEONARD

3 　"I Love Beyoncé, but I Struggle with Beyoncé": Girl Activists
Talk Music and Feminism 56 LYN MIKEL BROWN AND DANA EDELL WITH MONTGOMERY JONES, GEORGIA LUCKHURST, AND JONEKA PERCENTIE

PART II
Voice and Vocality

4 　"These Stupid Little Sounds in Her Voice": Valuing and
Vilifying the New Girl Voice 77 DIANE PECKNOLD

5 　Girls and Puberty: The Voice, It Is a-Changin’;
A Discussion of Pedagogical Methods for the
Training of the Voice through Puberty 99 BARBARA FOX DEMAIO

6　The Curse of the "O mio bambino caro": Jackie Evancho as　Prodigy, Diva, and Ideal Girl 113 DANA GORZELANY-MOSTAK

7 　Authority, Ability, and the Aging Ingénue’s Voice 143 ALEXANDRA APOLLONI

PART III
Voice and Authenticity

8 　Performing Pop Girlhood on Disney Channel 171 MORGAN BLUE

9 　When Loud Means Real: Tween Girls and the Voices of Rock Authenticity 191 SARAH DOUGHER

10 　YouTube, Twerking and You: Context Collapse and
the Handheld Copresence of Black Girls and Miley Cyrus 208 KYRA D. GAUNT

PART IV
Voice and Narrative

11 　The Counterpoint of Aging and Coming of Age in the Mother–Daughter Duets of Tori Amos and Natashya Hawley 235 LORI BURNS

12 　Listen to the Mockingjay: Voice, Identity, and Agency in

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Jacqueline Warwick is Associate Professor of Music at Dalhousie University, Canada.

Allison Adrian is Associate Professor of Music and Women’s Studies at St. Catherine University, Minnesota, where she also serves as Endowed Chair in Women’s Education.