Heavy Music Mothers

Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions

Julie Turley, Joan Jocson-Singh

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
21 April 2023

Theory of music & musicology; Heavy Metal music; Gender studies: women

Series: Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations

Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions is an exploration of women and heavy music and the ways in which women have historically engaged with musicking as mothers. Julie Turley and Joan Jocson-Singh, musicking mothers themselves, largely employ an ethnographic lens, foregrounded in powerful one-on-one original interviews as vignettes that narrate thematic patterns. Other chapters examine motherhood identity embedded in respective published rock music memoirs, discussions of rock performance as a site of maternal bonding, and themes that arise when heavy music mothers write about motherhood. Autoethnographic portions throughout give the book an intimate and personal tone: one such chapter presents the concept of vigilante motherhood within an auto-ethnographic context. The authors reference the book’s limitations, meditating on historically marginalized moms the authors predict and hope the focus will be on for the future. Heavy Music Mothers is a robust study of women and motherhood set within a music culture historically inhospitable to both women and mothers. This book, the first scholarly study of this topic, is just the beginning.

By: Julie Turley, Joan Jocson-Singh
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 372g
ISBN: 9781666916157
ISBN 10: 1666916153
Series: Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 21 April 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Chapter 1: Mother Framing: Methodologies Chapter 2: The Stories We Tell: Qualitative Interviews (Vignettes) Chapter 3: The Rock Mom Memoir Chapter 4: Vigilante Motherhood: The Embrace of Anger Chapter 5: Daughters on Rock Moms: Life, Performance, Musicking, and Bonding Chapter 6: Mother Tracks: Rock and Metal Moms Write Motherhood

Julie Turley is assistant professor and open education librarian at Kingsborough Community College/City University of New York in Brooklyn. Joan Jocson-Singh is institute librarian at the CalArts Library in Valencia, CA.

Reviews for Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions

"""Turley and Jocson-Singh's focus on motherhood sets this work apart. Heavy Music Mothers is engaging, unique, well-researched, and an important contribution to the literature concerned with music and gender and how women navigate these traditionally male-dominated spaces."" -- Stacy Russo, author of <i>We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene</i>"