Heavy Music Mothers
Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions
Abstract
Heavy 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.
Schlagworte
feminism and music women in rock mother studies motherhood and feminism mothering and music mothers in rock sexism and music- i–xxii Preface i–xxii
- 95–108 Mother Tracks 95–108
- 109–114 Conclusion 109–114
- 115–120 References 115–120
- 121–128 Index 121–128
- 129–130 About the Authors 129–130