Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

Author:   Cristina Garrigós (Professor of American Literature, Professor of American Literature, National University of Distance Education (UNED)) ,  Marika Ahonen (Doctoral candidate, Doctoral candidate, University of Turku)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780197659335


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 November 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Cristina Garrigós (Professor of American Literature, Professor of American Literature, National University of Distance Education (UNED)) ,  Marika Ahonen (Doctoral candidate, Doctoral candidate, University of Turku)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9780197659335


ISBN 10:   0197659330
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"1. Cristina Garrigós and Marika Ahonen. Introduction Part 1. Memory, Trauma, and Writing 2. Astrid Joutseno. Childhood Trauma and the Musical In-Between in Memoirs by Astrid Swan and Dory Previn. 3. Cristina Garrigós: The Monster in the House: Gender-Based Violence and Punk in Alice Bag's Violence Girl: East L.A Rage to Hollywood Stage. A Chicana Punk Story. 4. Ángel Chaparro. Memory and Writing in Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band 5. Marika Ahonen. Memory, Truth, and Narrative Ethics in Christina Rosenvinge's Debut. Part 2. Authenticity, Sexuality, and Sexism 6. Karen Fournier. Jayne County, Laura Jane Grace, and the HerStory of Transgender Punks in America. 7. Margaret Henderson. A Portrait of the Artist as a Punk: Authenticity and the Woman Musician in Debbie Harry's Face It. 8. Wayne Heisler. ""Mothers aren't sexy,"" ""What is that you're wearing"", ""What's it like to be in an all-girl band?"": Memoirs as Histories of 1980s Music Industry Sexism 9. Beatriz A. Medeiros. The Art of Performing Authenticity: a study of Amanda Palmer's memoir 10. Amy McCarthy. The Punk, the Rebel, and the Cowboy: Queering Masculine Spaces in Patti Smith's memoirs Part 3. Aging, Performance, and the Image 11. Jacqueline Dickin. Queens of Noise: Rewriting the 'Rock Chick' Identity through Neon Angel and Living Like A Runaway 12. Satoko Naito. Humanizing Icon: Collaboration and Control in Grace Jones's I'll Never Write My Memoirs. 13. Silvia Hernandez Hellin: Power in the Eye of the Beholder: Authoring Text and Image in the Female Rock Memoir 14. Abigail Gardner. Cosey Fanni Tutti, Age and Place Index"

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Cristina Garrigós is Professor of American Literature at UNED (National University of Distance Education) in Spain. Her research interests include US contemporary literature, film, music, punk, memory, and gender studies. She is coauthor of the book of interviews God Save the Queens: Pioneras del Punk (66rpm 2019) with Paula Guerra and Nuria Triana. She is the editor of Punk Connections: A Transcultural Perspective, (U. of Barcelona 2017) with Nuria Triana-Toribio. She has published on authors such as Kathy Acker, Gloria Anzaldúa, Giannina Braschi, Helena María Viramontes, Don DeLillo, and Ruth Ozeki, among others. Her latest book is Alzheimer's Disease in Contemporary US Fiction: Memory Lost (Routledge 2021). She is the President of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS, (2023- ). Marika Ahonen is a doctoral candidate in Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland. Her doctoral dissertation examines the construction of narratives in popular music and the ethical questions raised in this context through the authorship and music of Spanish singer-songwriter Christina Rosenvinge (b. 1964). Overall, her research interests include the connection between popular music and identity, the relation of gender to agency, and the fields of narrative ethics and power mechanisms. She is also drawn to the areas of phenomenology and hermeneutics. In 2022, Ahonen won the ISCH (International Society for Cultural History) essay prize with the article 'Sirens, Narrative Ethics, and Christina Rosenvinge's Mi vida bajo el agua', published in the journal Cultural History, 2023.

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