Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians

<p><i>Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians</i> 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.</p><p></p><p>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 ageing. Female rock memoirs are age-appropriate survival stories that reframe the histories of punk and independent rock music. Old age has a functional and canonical ‘place’ in the work of Shirley Collins and Calypso Rose.</p><p></p><p>Janelle Monáe Christine and the Queens and Anohni perform ‘queer’ age specifically a kind of ‘going beyond’ both corporeal and temporal borders. Genres age and the book introduces the idea of the <em>time-crunch</em>; 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 interviews 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. </p><p></p><p><i>Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians </i>is a vital intergenerational feminist viewpoint for researchers and students in gender studies popular music popular culture media studies cultural studies and ageing studies<i>. </i></p>