Popular Music Autobiography: The Revolution In Life-Writing By 1960S' Musicians And Their Descendants

Bloomsbury Academic
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The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book situates these works -- in the forms of formal autobiographies and memoirs, auto-fiction, songs, and self-fashioned museum exhibitions -- within the context of the recent expansion of interest in autobiography, disability, and celebrity studies. It argues that these writings express anxiety over musical originality and authenticity, and seeks to dispel their writers' celebrity status and particularly the association with a lack of seriousness. These works often constitute a meditation on the nature of postmodern fame within a celebrity-obsessed culture, and paradoxically they aim to regain the private self in a public forum.


  • | Author: Oliver Lovesey
  • | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2023
  • | Number of Pages: 264 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1501385917
  • | ISBN-13: 9781501385919
Author:
Oliver Lovesey
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date:
Jul 27, 2023
Number of pages:
264 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1501385917
ISBN-13:
9781501385919