| #1113137 in Books | 2007-02-22 | 2007-03-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.65 x5.98l,.85 | File type: PDF | 286 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting Take On Impact of Girl Group Sound of the 1960s|By James A. Allio|Jacqueline Warwick has written a thesis-like revisionist take on the girl group sound of the 1960s, focusing on the messages and impact of The Shangri-Las, Chantels, Ronettes, Marvelettes and their ilk. At times relying heavily on earlier tomes, Warwick nevertheless argues convincingly that teenage g|||"…[Warwick’s] thoroughness lends the book―which flies in the face of the notion that producers are musical gods―a sense of much-needed authority. Through [her] Marxist feminist lens, even thin-voiced Diana Ross seems worthy of a little more R
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 j...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s | Jacqueline Warwick. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
