She's So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music

Laurie Stras

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351548731
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

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, and cultural studies, this volume is the first interdisciplinary work to link close musical readings with rigorous cultural analysis in the treatment of artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Crystals, The Blossoms, Brenda Lee, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Tina Turner, and Marianne Faithfull. Currently available studies of 1960s girl groups/girl singers fall into one of three categories: industry-generated accounts of the music's production and sales, sociological commentaries, or omnibus chronologies/discographies. She's So Fine, by contrast, focuses on clearly defined themes via case studies of selected artists. Within this analytical rather than historically comprehensive framework, this book presents new research and original observations on the 60s girl group/girl singer phenomenon.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Music Examples
• Notes on Contributors
• General Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: She’s So Fine, or Why Girl Singers (Still) Matter
• Part I “Now that I’m not a Kid Anymore”: American Girls’ Voices in the 50s and 60s
• Part II “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”: British Girls in the Mid-60s
• Part III Girls on Top: Rock Chicks and Resistance at the End of the 60s
• Response
• Select Bibliography
• Song Title Index
• Subject and Name index