Girl Groups Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s

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Then He Kissed Me, He's A Rebel, Chains, Stop! In the Name of Love all these songs capture the spirit of an era and an image of "girlhood" in post-World War II America that still reverberates today. While there were over 1500 girl groups recorded in the '60s—including key hitmakers like the Ronettes, the Supremes, and the Shirelles—studies of girl-group music that address race, gender, class, and sexuality have only just begun to appear. Warwick is the first writer to address '60s girl group music from the perspective of its most significant audience—teenage girls—drawing on current research in psychology and sociology to explore the important place of this repertoire in the emotional development of young girls of the baby boom generation. Girl Groups, Girl Culture stands as a landmark study of this important pop music and cultural phenomenon. It promises to be a classic work in American musicology and cultural studies. Dedication Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Girl Talk 1 The Emerging Girl Group Sound 2 The Voice of the Girl Part II: A Brand New Dance Now 3 Embodying Girlness 4 Restraint and Violence 5 Uniformity and Masquerade Part III: He Makes Me Say Things I Don’t Want to Say 6 Record Producers and the Politics of Production 7 Carole King and Ellie Greenwich 8 Up against the Wall of Sound Part IV: Look Here, Girls, and Take This Advice 9 Respectability wersus Rock’n’Roll 10 Motown and the Politics of Crossover Success 11 Mothers and Daughters Part V: Out in the Streets 12 Group Identity and Public Space 13 Rebellion and Girldom 14 Girl Groups, the Road, and Public Record Notes Bibliography Index