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A Women's History of the Beatles is the first book to offer a detailed presentation of the band's social and cultural impact as understood through the experiences and lives of women. Drawing on a mix of interviews, archival research, textual analysis, and autoethnography, this scholarly work depicts how the Beatles have profoundly shaped and enriched the lives of women, while also reexamining key, influential female figures within the group's history. Organized topically based on key themes important to the Beatles story, each chapter uncovers the varied and multifaceted relationships women have had with the band, whether face-to-face and intimately or parasocially through mediated, popular culture. Set within a socio-historical context that charts changing gender norms since the early 1960s, these narratives consider how the Beatles have affected women's lives across three generations. Providing a fresh perspective of a well-known tale, this is a cultural history that moves far beyond the screams of Beatlemania to offer a more comprehensive understanding of what the now iconic band has meant to women over the course of six decades.

Women popular music fans. --- Popular music fans. --- Women in music. --- Feminism and music. --- Popular music --- Social aspects. --- Beatles.

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"In the midst of acne, social anxiety and training bras are the teen idols that make adolescent life a little more bearable. This collection of new essays explores with tenderness and humor the teen crushes of the past 50 years--from Elvis to John Lennon to Diana Ross--who have influenced women, romantically or otherwise, well into adulthood"--

Popular music --- Popular music fans. --- Teenage girls. --- Young women. --- Social aspects.

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"Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed artist-fan relationships into something more intimate. Through in-depth interviews with musicians such as the Cure, UB40, and Throwing Muses, Nancy K. Baym reveals how new media has facilitated connections through the active participation of both the artists and their devoted digital fan base. Before the rise of online sharing and user-generated content, audiences were mostly seen as undifferentiated masses, often mediated through record labels and the press. Today, musicians and fans have built more active relationships through social media, fan sites, and artist sites, giving them a new sense of intimacy, while offering artists unparalleled access to and information about their audiences. But this comes at a price. For audiences, meeting their heroes can kill the mystique. And for artists, maintaining active relationships with so many people can be labor intensive and emotionally draining. Drawing on her own rich history as a deeply connected music fan, Baym offers an entirely new approach to media culture, arguing that the work musicians put into maintaining these intimate relationships reflects the demands of the gig economy, one which requires resources and strategies that we all music come to recognize"--Publisher's description

Popular music --- Music --- Popular music fans --- Social aspects --- Performance --- Psychological aspects --- Popular music fans. --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Sociologie van de cultuur --- Muziek --- Sociology of culture --- Popular music - Social aspects --- Music - Performance - Psychological aspects

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Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos explores the many-layered relationships female fans build with feminist musicians in general and with Tori Amos, in particular. Using original interview research with more than forty fans of Tori Amos, multiple observer-participant experiences at Amos's concerts, and critical content analysis of Amos's lyrics and larger body of work, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek utilizes a combination of gender, emotions, music, and activism to unravel the typecasts plaguing female fans. Trier-Bi

Feminism and music. --- Popular music fans. --- Popular music --- Music fans --- Music and feminism --- Music --- Fans --- Amos, Tori --- Amos, Myra Ellen --- Amos, Ellen --- Tori, --- Appreciation.