- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "This introduction positions the history of girl and young women singers in the 1960s in the context of broader histories of vocal training; ideas about voice, respectability, and expressivity; and the models of youthful femininity that were emergent in 1960s Britain. It connects this study to the emerging field of Voice Studies and provide an overview of the book's chapters"--
- Uniform Title
- Freedom girls (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Freedom girls (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction. Vocal Manners for Moderns -- Part I. Ordinary, Extraordinary Voices. Chart Chicks and Gear Girls : The Limits of Mod Femininity ; "A girl in a million, just like a million" : Sandie Shaw and Ordinary Girlhood ; Sounding Like Liverpool : Region, Memory, and Cilla Black's Accent -- Part II. Transatlantic Voices. England meets Jamaica's Lollipop Girl : Millie Small, Voice, and Migration ; Race, Self-Invention, and Dusty Springfield's Voice -- Part III. Sex, Voice, and Rock and Roll. The Last Remaining Virgin in London : Lulu, Whiteness, and Youth ; Sex, Freedom, and Marianne Faithfull's Voice in the Afterlight of the 1960s ; Remembering Rock and Roll with P.P. Arnold -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9780190879921
- LCCN
- 2021028912
- OCLC
- ssj0002516856
- Author
Apolloni, Alexandra M.
- Title
Freedom girls [electronic resource] : voicing femininity in 1960s British pop / Alexandra M. Apolloni.
- Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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