Introduction
Chapter 1 More than Music: Women’s Rock Memoirs:
Chapter 2 Shirley Collins and Calypso Rose: Grand Maternal Queens
Chapter 3 ‘Tilted’: The Queer Ages and Sideways Spaces of Janelle
Monáe, Christine and the Queens and Anohni
Chapter 4 Ageing with Alt Rock and Folk
Chapter 5 Rude Girls: Ageing, Race and Place
Chapter 6 "They’re not going to give me Stormzy’:
Ageing Matters Behind the Scenes
After word Age Stages, a Reflection
Bibliography
Biography
Abigail Gardner is Reader in Music and Media at the University of Gloucestershire, 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.
