PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance
Biography
Abigail Gardner is Principal Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She writes on music and ageing, music video and music documentary. She is editor and co-author (with Ros Jennings) of Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music (Ashgate, 2012).
"PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance is an essential book because it is the first full academic work that is exclusively dedicated to her and her music video. Gardner’s writing is very clear and well-documented, and her reconfigurations of the theories are indeed necessary to account for Harvey’s performances. In addition, she adds a voice to the relatively new study of music video as a genre, a domain that is bound to gain importance with time."
- Ariane Gruet-Pelchat, Université Laval, Canada
"Readers do not have to be Harvey fans in order to be attracted by the interdisciplinarily designed study, that offers an impressive insight into popular music. (...) one of the main strengths of the book – apart from the fact that it is the first academic book to present a detailed critical analysis of Harvey’s confrontational video work – is the extension of established concepts from feminist theory and models from film and video scholarship."
- Dr. Fabienne Amlinger, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung, Germany
