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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

By
Jacqueline Warwick
Edited by
Laura Hamer
Laura Hamer
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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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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girl groupsUSpopular culturecivil rights movementBrill BuildingMotownthe Shirellesthe Ronettesthe Shangri-Lasthe Supremes.
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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 , pp. 119 - 130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Gaunt, Kyra. The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip Hop (New York: New York University Press, 2006).Google Scholar
McRobbie, Angela. Feminism and Youth Culture: From ‘Jackie’ to ‘Just Seventeen’ (London: Macmillan, 1991).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stras, Laurie (ed.). She’s So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010).Google Scholar
Warwick, Jacqueline. Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s (New York: Routledge, 2007).Google Scholar

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