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  • From Beatles Fans to Beat Groups: A Historiography of the 1960s All-Girl Rock Band

    Author(s)
    Barrett, Christine
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Barrett, Christine J.
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    While much is written about the cultural influence of the vocalist-driven girl groups and female singers of the early-to-mid-1960s, an air of mystery continues to shroud this era's all-girl rock bands-in the UK, US, and worldwide-that performed, recorded, and often wrote their own material. Influenced by the Beatles and the British beat boom that followed, these bands are an important missing link in rock music history, as they epitomize a less overtly gendered, if short-lived, period of the genre. In an era between Betty Friedan's 1963 Feminine Mystique and the changes to come with 1970s second-wave feminism, a handful of ...
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    While much is written about the cultural influence of the vocalist-driven girl groups and female singers of the early-to-mid-1960s, an air of mystery continues to shroud this era's all-girl rock bands-in the UK, US, and worldwide-that performed, recorded, and often wrote their own material. Influenced by the Beatles and the British beat boom that followed, these bands are an important missing link in rock music history, as they epitomize a less overtly gendered, if short-lived, period of the genre. In an era between Betty Friedan's 1963 Feminine Mystique and the changes to come with 1970s second-wave feminism, a handful of musically minded young women were determined to transform their Beatles fandom in order to become co-creators of what was not yet a resolutely masculinist music scene.
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    Journal Title
    Feminist Media Studies
    Volume
    14
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2013.866972
    Subject
    Sociology not elsewhere classified
    Other human society
    Communication and media studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/58411
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