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Review: She’s So Fine
Laura Stras’s edited collection She’s So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music has received a glowing review on the Times Higher Education website courtesy of Lee Barron. IASPM Canada members have been highlighted for their contributions. Congrats! The book’s standout chapters include those written by Jacqueline Warwick, Annie J. Randall [...]
Hawkins and the British Pop Dandy
In the past, Stan Hawkins has produced worthwhile work for researchers in popular music interested in gender, masculinities and the singing voice, particularly in the form of his book, Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). This newer book, entitled The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture, is [...]
Volume ! La revue des musiques populaires: La Reprise / Covers
Volume ! La revue des musiques populaires La Reprise / Covers Éditions Mélanie Seteun Release : june 2010 ISBN: 978-2-913169-26-5 ISSN: 1634-5495 300 pages Format: 8,25’’ x 8,25’’ Languages: French & English Public price: 19 euros Covers are ambiguous objects that run through all popular musics, with a variety of forms and functions: homage, parody, [...]
The Last Professors
As an undergraduate, how many of your classes were taught by professors, how many by graduate students, and how many by adjunct lecturers? The answer partly depends on your alma mater and its location along a continuum of resources. For example, community college courses are more likely to be taught by adjuncts than by full [...]
She’s So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music – Laurie Stras, ed.
Stras, Laurie, ed. She’s So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. She’s So Fine explores the music, reception and cultural significance of 1960s girl singers and girl groups in the US and the UK. Using approaches from the fields of musicology, women’s studies, film and media studies, [...]
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