Fashion and Music

by Janice Miller

Overview

The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity, taste and consumption. Using a range of historical and contemporary examples, this book uncovers the way in which fashion and music have worked to shape contemporary attitudes to bodies and identities.

Focusing on performers as much as fans, on the mainstream as much as the underground, Fashion and Music provides a lens through which to examine themes of gender, sexuality, ageing and youth, ethnicity, body image, consumer culture, fandom and postmodernity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847884138
Publisher:	Berg Publishers
Publication date:	09/27/2011
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Janice Miller is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: Fashion, Identity, Authenticity and Music 1

1 Branding, Fashion and Music 11

2 Fans, Music, Clothes and Consumption 29

3 Witchy Women: Fashioning the Womanly Body of the Female Singer-Songwriter 51

4 White Suited Men: Style, Masculinity and the Boyband 71

5 Dressing Your Age: Fashion, the Body and the Ageing Music Star 91

6 Clothes and Cultural Identities: Music, Ethnicity and Nation 109

7 Spectacle and Sexuality: Music, Clothes and Queer Bodies 131

Conclusion: Music, Fashion, Image 155

Bibliography 163

Index 179

Editorial Reviews

This book is not only entertaining, but also informative. Miller presents a current perspective on various aspects of popular music in one easy to read book, which I plan to use in the classroom.

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