Book description
The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a
culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how
music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity, taste
and consumption. Using a range of historical and contemporary examples,
this book uncovers the way in which fashion and music have worked to
shape contemporary attitudes to bodies and identities. Focusing on
performers as much as fans, on the mainstream as much as the
underground, Fashion and Music provides a lens through which to examine
themes of gender, sexuality, ageing and youth, ethnicity, body image,
consumer culture, fandom and postmodernity. Janice Miller is Senior
Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of
Fashion.
