Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

Tanya Pearson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2021
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2116-4 (ISBN)

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First as a doe-eyed ingÉnue with “As Tears Go By,” then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-less icon, Marianne Faithfull carved her name into the history of rock ’n’ roll to chart a career spanning five decades and multiple detours. In Why Marianne Faithfull Matters, Tanya Pearson crafts a feminist account that explains the musician’s absence from the male-dominated history of the British Invasion and champions the eclectic late career that confirmed her redemption.

Putting memoir on equal footing with biographical history, Pearson writes about Faithfull as an avid fan, recovered addict, and queer musician at a crossroads. She’s also a professional historian unafraid to break from the expectations of the discipline if a “titty-centered analysis” or astrology can illuminate the work of her subject. Whether exploring Faithfull’s rise to celebrity, her drug addiction and fall from grace as spurned “muse,” or her reinvention as a sober, soulful chanteuse subverting all expectations for an aging woman in music, Pearson affirms the deep connections between listeners and creators and reveals, in her own particular way, why Marianne Faithfull matters.

Tanya Pearson is a public historian and director of the Women of Rock Oral History Project, a collection of digital interviews and written transcripts documenting the lives and careers of women-identified rock musicians. Her work has appeared in Bust Magazine, Memoir Mixtapes, and Oral History Journal.

Introduction: Women Are Born Cultural Archaeologists
I. The “It Girl” of the Swinging Sixties

Parents
The British Invasion
Pop Stardom
Breasts
“Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Me Away”
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”

II. Falling from Grace

Trauma Is a Gateway Drug
A Punk Comeback

III. The Chanteuse

Strange Weather
The 90s: A Good Decade for Women in Rock
Before the Poison
“In My Own Particular Way”
Capricorn
Love in the Time of Coronavirus

Epilogue: Memory, “Show Me the Dick”
Acknowledgments
Discography and Filmography
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	07.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Music Matters
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 178 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-4773-2116-0 / 1477321160
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-2116-4 / 9781477321164
Zustand	Neuware