248 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Too Much Too Young investigates how age and gender have shaped the careers and images of pop music stars, examining the role of youth and youthfulness in pop music through a series of themed case studies.
Whiteley begins by investigating the exploitation of child stars such as Brenda Lee and Michael Jackson, offering a psychoanalytic reading of the relationship between child star and... Read more
Introduction Part One : Nursery Crymes Little Miss Dynamite; The Boy Behind The Mask; Father... I Want To Kill You: The Birth of the Lizard King; Monsters and Ogres; When Will They Ever Learn? Part Two : Little Girls Introduction; Kate Bush: The Red Shoes; Tori Amos: Lady of the Rings; Bjork: The Icelandic Elf; Little Girls Revisited Part Three: Little Boys Introduction: The Rules of the Game; Age, Identity and the Slippery Divide of the Rock/Pop Binary; Who's That Boy? Death And My Cock; 'Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky; Myth and Reality; Boys Just Wanna Be Boys; The Young Ones; Somebody Wants To Be Wanted; I'm A Believer; Rollermania; Do What U Like? Pop Idols Postscript. Life After Death: Old Girls and Old Boys Notes Bibliography Discography
Biography
Sheila Whiteley
