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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA thoughtful, nuanced, and beautifully written study of British girlhood and music through the upheavals of the 1960s. This book offers a terrific range of case studies including Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, Millie Small, and PP Arnold, to consider girl singers and their fans as bearers of social change in Swinging London. With attention to the materials and metaphorical functions of the voice, Apolloni restores authority to the girls and young women who were raising their voices and remaking the world. * Jacqueline Warwick, Dalhousie University, and author of Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Vocal Manners for Moderns Part I: Ordinary, Extraordinary Voices Chapter 1: Chart Chicks and Gear Girls: The Limits of Mod Femininity Chapter 2: A girl in a million, just like a million": Sandie Shaw and Ordinary Girlhood Chapter 3: Sounding Like Liverpool: Region, Memory, and Cilla Black's Accent Part II: Chapter 4: England meets Jamaica's Lollipop Girl: Millie Small, Voice, and Migration Chapter 5: Race, Self-Invention, and Dusty Springfield's Voice Part III: Voice, Age, and Sex Chapter 6: The Last Remaining Virgin in London: Lulu, Whiteness, and Youth Chapter 7: Sex, Freedom, and Marianne Faithfull's Voice at the Twilight of the Sixties Chapter 8: Remembering Rock and Roll with P.P. Arnold Epilogue Index
