Girl Groups, Girl Culture

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.

Jacqueline Warwick is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Dalhousie University, Canada, where she specializes in music history and popular music. She is an active member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and has presented papers at numerous conferences in North America and Europe.

Introduction; Part 1 Girl Talk; Chapter 1 The Emerging Girl Group Sound; Chapter 2 The Voice of the Girl; Part 2 A Brand New Dance Now; Chapter 3 Embodying Girlness; Chapter 4 Restraint and Violence; Chapter 5 Uniformity and Masquerade; Part 3 He Makes Me; Chapter 6 Record Producers and the Politics of Production; Chapter 7 Carole King and Ellie Greenwich; Chapter 8 Up against the Wall of Sound; Part 4 Look Here, Girls, and Take This Advice; Chapter 9 Respectability Versus RockâEUR(TM)nâEUR(TM)Roll; Chapter 10 Motown and the Politics of Crossover Success; Chapter 11 Mothers and Daughters; Part 5 Out in the Streets; Chapter 12 Group Identity and Public Space; Chapter 13 Rebellion and Girldom; Chapter 14 Girl Groups, the Road, and Public Record;