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Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians focuses on ageing within contemporary popular music. It argues that context, genres, memoirs, racial politics and place all contribute to how women are ‘aged’ in popular music. Framing contemporary female musicians as canonical grandmothers, Rude Girls, neo-Afrofuturist and memoirists settling accounts, the book gives us some respite from a decline or denial narrative and introduces a dynamism into age- ing. Female rock memoirs are age-appropriate survival stories that reframe the histories of punk and independent rock music. Old age has a functional and ca- nonical ‘place’ in the work of Shirley Collins and Calypso Rose. Janelle Monáe, Christine and the Queens and Anohni perform ‘queer’ age, specifically a kind of ‘going beyond’ both corporeal and temporal borders. Gen- res age, and the book introduces the idea of the time-crunch; an encounter between an embodied, represented age and a genre-age, which is, itself, produced through historicity and aesthetics. Lastly the book goes behind the scenes to draw on in- terviews and questionnaires with 19 women involved in the contemporary British and American popular music industry: DIY and ex-musicians, producers, music publishers, music journalists and audio engineers. Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians is a vital intergenerational feminist viewpoint for researchers and students in gender studies, popular music, popular culture, media studies, cultural studies and ageing studies. Abigail Gardner is Reader in Music and Media at the University of Glouces- tershire, UK and writes on ageing, temporality and marginality, particularly in relation to women and popular music. Her publications include Popular Music and Aging in Europe (2019), PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance (2015) and Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music (2012). She is a founder member of http:// wamuog.co.uk, has led Erasmus + media and storytelling projects and produced ‘In My Own Right’, a documentary short (Zinder and Gardner, 2019) about two women’s relationship in a small Orthodox community. Interdisciplinary Research in Gender Actresses and Mental Illness Histrionic Heroines Fiona Gregory Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Literature and Film Polina Kroik Masculinities and Desire A Deleuzian Encounter Marek Wojtaszek Feminism, Republicanism, Egalitarianism, Environmentalism Bill of Rights and Gendered Sustainable Initiatives Yulia Maleta Ungendering Technology Women Retooling the Masculine Sphere Carol J. Haddad Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians Abigail Gardner Sexual Violence and Humiliation A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective Dianna Taylor Gender, Sexuality and the Cultural Politics of Men’s Identity in the New Millennium Literacies of Masculinity Robert Mundy and Harry Denny https://www.routledge.com/Interdisciplinary-Research-in-Gender/book- series/IRG Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians Abigail Gardner First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 Abigail Gardner The right of Abigail Gardner to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Gardner, Abigail, author. Title: Ageing and contemporary female musicians / Abigail Gardner. Description: Routledge, London; New York: Routledge, 2019. | Series: Interdisciplinary researches in gender | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2019013068 (print) | LCCN 2019014708 (ebook) | ISBN 9781315170411 () | ISBN 9781138048065 (hardback: alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Women musicians. | Older musicians. | Women in music. | Aging–Social aspects. | Popular music–Social aspects. Classification: LCC ML82 (ebook) | LCC ML82 .G3 2019 (print) | DDC 781.64082–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019013068 ISBN: 978-1-138-04806-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-17041-1 (ebk) Typeset in Baskerville by codeMantra Contents Preface vi Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 1 More than music: female rock memoirs 13 2 Shirley Collins and Calypso Rose: grand maternal queens 31 3 ‘Tilted’: the queer ages and sideways spaces of Janelle Monáe, Christine and the Queens and Anohni 49 4 Ageing with alt-rock and folk 69 5 Rude Girls: ageing, race and place 87 6 ‘They’re not going to give me Stormzy’: ageing matters behind the scenes 103 Afterword: age stages, a reflection 121 Bibliography 125 Index 141 Preface At supper in the overheated summer of 2018, my mother-in-law asked me what this book was about. When I told her it was about ageing and music, she replied ‘What on earth has ageing got to do with music? I’m 74 and I play the violin’. Sure enough, she performs in an amateur orchestra when her health allows her to, and has been playing and consuming classical music all her life. But her ques- tion stayed with me as often, at popular music conferences or media seminars in HE in the UK, there is a kind of shrugging of the shoulders when talking about age and music. Ageing is the preserve of Health and Social Care studies, per- haps, for gerontologists, and, yes, for feminists working on representation within visual culture (Dolan, 2017; Woodward, 2006; Jermyn and Holmes, 2015). Indeed, work at the Centre for Women, Ageing and Media at the Un iversity of Gloucestershire, where I have been based, has spearheaded this feminist ap- proach to unpacking ageism within contemporary popular culture. What can be said about getting older and pop music? Well, it seems increasingly that a lot can, and is, being said about it. As pop matures, as it becomes museumified, as its fans refuse to give up their idols, so research is being carried out on fan alle- giances (Vroomen, 2004; Harrington and Bielby, 2010; Driessen, 2015; Bennett, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2016), on pop heritage (Roberts and Cohen, 2015; Leonard and Knifton, 2015; Long and Collins, 2012) and on ageing voices (Elliott, 2015). More scholars across fan studies, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies are mapping out disciplinary spaces where the relationships between discursive and representational practices and audience experiences of popular music across a life course are being examined. This book is part of these multidisciplinary trajectories. It is also trying to do something different with ‘age’ by asking whether it is always aligned to the body, or to chronology, whether it has specific generic func- tions and what myths it engenders. This needs to be done now because ageing needs to be unpacked, dismantled and interrogated; we cannot just say ‘ageing’ and agree we are thinking the same thing (getting old); we cannot assume that by saying ‘getting old’ we mean decline. These questions need to be asked and to ask them of the bodies, voices and performances of ‘contemporary female musi- cians’ is to centre the discussion on an arena within popular culture where age and ageing are complex and contradictory. The world of popular music is itself, Preface vii subject to weird time shifts. It is both cyclical and retromanic; it catalogues itself, archives itself, goes back to itself, reliving the 1980s, playing ‘Golden Oldies’. It is a space where time is elastic, shifting, exacerbated. Women in it age against this backdrop, are subject to discourses of renaissance, resurgence and of the mar- ket realities of reissue culture. They age accompanied by their youth: what they sounded like, what they looked like, who they hung out with. So yes, this book is about ‘what on earth has ageing got to do with music’ and it’s about time. Acknowledgements Thanks to the following: For talking about music. Richard Elliott, Ian Biddle, Adam Behr, Emily Baker, Sarah Hill, Matthew Lovett, Kai Arne Hansen, Martin Cloonan, Paul Long, Sara Cohen, Gerry Moorey, Ben Wardle, Jasmine Taylor, Justin Williams, Justin Crouch, Gideon Capie, Simon Turner, Pete Chambers, IASPM UK and Eire conferences. For talking about ageing. Lizzie Adshead, Gerri Frame, Laura Snapes, Jude Rogers, Anna Pointer, Carol Scott, Helen McCookeryBook, Martine McDonough, Sharron Kraus, Mandy Parnell, Fran Malyan, Aby Vulliamy. For the Sound Girls. Rochelle Smith, Signe Miranda, Lindsay Martin, Aliyah English, Claire Murphy, Claire Marie Lim, Vanessa Lucca. For answering cold calls. Tim Plester, Jean-Michel Gilbert, Andy Franks. For support. Anne Dawson, Ros Jennings, Melanie Ilic, Nigel McLoughlin, David James, Maria Quinn, Pili Luna. This book is for my family, Charles, Josh, Letty and Louis, and my great friend, Anne. Introduction This book is about ageing but it is not only about getting old. It is about a process that happens in time and it is about times that are remembered as particular ages. It is about music and women and the stories they sing, the memories they narrate. It is about the places they play, the ‘whens’ and the ‘wheres’. It is about age as texture and as memory, about musical ages and musical markers of age. It is about women in music, their pasts and presents; their lives lived in time and the times as they change. It is about marking time and being marked in time; it is about ageing and contemporary female musicians. It deals with age and ageing across three connected areas of female crea- tive practice in contemporary popular music: the recent wave of women’s rock memoirs, the continuing performance of women in their middle and late middle ages and of young female musicians.
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