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Book SynopsisHeavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions is an exploration of women and heavy music and the ways in which women have historically engaged with musicking as mothers. Julie Turley and Joan Jocson-Singh, musicking mothers themselves, largely employ an ethnographic lens, foregrounded in powerful one-on-one original interviews as vignettes that narrate thematic patterns. Other chapters examine motherhood identity embedded in respective published rock music memoirs, discussions of rock performance as a site of maternal bonding, and themes that arise when heavy music mothers write about motherhood. Autoethnographic portions throughout give the book an intimate and personal tone: one such chapter presents the concept of vigilante motherhood within an auto-ethnographic context. The authors reference the book’s limitations, meditating on historically marginalized moms the authors predict and hope the focus will be on for the future. Heavy Music Mothers is a robust study of women and motherhood set within a music culture historically inhospitable to both women and mothers. This book, the first scholarly study of this topic, is just the beginning.
Trade Review"Turley and Jocson-Singh's focus on motherhood sets this work apart. Heavy Music Mothers is engaging, unique, well-researched, and an important contribution to the literature concerned with music and gender and how women navigate these traditionally male-dominated spaces."
-- Stacy Russo, author of
We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock SceneTable of ContentsContents
Chapter 1: Mother Framing: Methodologies
Chapter 2: The Stories We Tell: Qualitative Interviews (Vignettes)
Chapter 3: The Rock Mom Memoir
Chapter 4: Vigilante Motherhood: The Embrace of Anger
Chapter 5: Daughters on Rock Moms: Life, Performance, Musicking, and Bonding
Chapter 6: Mother Tracks: Rock and Metal Moms Write Motherhood
