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- The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Boxes
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I The Classical Tradition
- Part II Women in Popular Music
- 7 Most of My Sheroes Don’t Appear on a Stamp: Contextualising the Contributions of Women Musicians to the Progression of Jazz
- 8 Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s
- 9 Women and Rock
- 10 ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’: Women in Songwriting
- 11 The British Folk Revival: Mythology and the ‘Non-Figuring’ and ‘Figuring’ Woman
- 12 How MTV Idols Got Us in Formation: Solo Women and Their Brands Make Space for Truth Telling, Trauma, and Survival in Popular Music from 1981 to the Present
- In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 2
- Part III Women and Music Technology
- Part IV Women’s Wider Work in Music
- Appendix: Survey Questions for Chapter 14, The Star-Eaters: A 2019 Survey of Female and Gender-Non-Conforming Individuals Using Electronics for Music
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
8 - Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s
from Part II - Women in Popular Music
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Boxes
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I The Classical Tradition
- Part II Women in Popular Music
- 7 Most of My Sheroes Don’t Appear on a Stamp: Contextualising the Contributions of Women Musicians to the Progression of Jazz
- 8 Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s
- 9 Women and Rock
- 10 ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’: Women in Songwriting
- 11 The British Folk Revival: Mythology and the ‘Non-Figuring’ and ‘Figuring’ Woman
- 12 How MTV Idols Got Us in Formation: Solo Women and Their Brands Make Space for Truth Telling, Trauma, and Survival in Popular Music from 1981 to the Present
- In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 2
- Part III Women and Music Technology
- Part IV Women’s Wider Work in Music
- Appendix: Survey Questions for Chapter 14, The Star-Eaters: A 2019 Survey of Female and Gender-Non-Conforming Individuals Using Electronics for Music
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Chapter 8 turns to the girl groups of the 1960s. Although often not taken seriously, they were one of the most successful musical phenomena of the first half of the 1960s in the United States. Jacqueline Warwick skilfully unpacks ‘girl culture’, the intersection of the girl groups with the contemporaneous civil rights movement, and key figures and groups of the era, such as the Shirelles, the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, and the Supremes.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 , pp. 119 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021