Skip to content
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL DOMESTIC ORDERS $35+
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL US ORDERS $35+
Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture - Paperback | Diverse Reads

Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture

Availability:
in stock, ready to be shipped
$17.95 - $17.95
$17.95
$17.99
$17.99 - $17.99
$17.99
"To be a fan is to scream alone together." This is the discovery Hannah Ewens makes in Fangirls: how music fandom is at once a journey of self-definition and a conduit for connection and camaraderie; how it is both complicated and empowering; and how now, more than ever, fandoms composed of girls and young queer people create cultures that shape and change an entire industry.

This book is about what it means to be a fangirl.

Speaking to hundreds of fans from the UK, US, Europe, and Japan, Ewens tells the story of music fandom using its own voices, recounting previously untold or glossed-over scenes from modern pop and rock music history. In doing so, she uncovers the importance of fan devotion: how Ariana Grande represents both tragedy and resilience to her followers, or what it means to meet an artist like Lady Gaga in person. From One Directioners, to members of the Beyhive, to the author's own fandom experiences, this book reclaims the "fangirl" label for its young members, celebrating their purpose, their power, and, most of all, their passion for the music they love.

ISBN-13: 9781477322093

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Publication Date: 08-18-2020

Pages: 256

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

Series: American Music

Hannah Ewens is currently the Features Editor and a writer at VICE. She writes about youth culture, mental health, music, and film for publications that include the Guardian and the Telegraph, and has interviewed subjects including everyone from Patti Smith and Deftones to Jennifer Lawrence and Sofia Coppola.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

1 An Animal within an Animal: A Brief Fangirl History 7

2 The Waiting Game 29

3 I'm (Not) Okay: To Retreat and Return 49

4 Lady Gaga Will See You Now 71

5 Sex & iPhones & Rock & Roll 91

(i) 'Fuck Me Daddy' (or Screaming Obscenities at Objects of Desire)

(ii) Queering with Strangers

6 'We Are the Media': Inside the Hive Mind 127

7 Harry's Girls, Long-Distance Love and Global Fangirling 147

8 Dangerous Women and Political Fun 173

9 Our Tears Dry on Their Own: Amy, Grief and British Female Fans 195

10 Witches Always Live Through This: Courtney Love's Older Fangirls 215

Afterword 231

Beyond 'Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture' 237

Acknowledgements 239