Fashion and music

The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book demonstrates the ways in which 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Fashion, Identity and Music

1. Dressing Fans: Music, Clothes and Consumption
2. Gwen Loves Vivienne: Branding, Fashion and Music
3. Witchy Women: Fashioning the Womanly Body of the Female Singer-Songwriter
4. White Suited Men: Style and the Marketing of the Boyband
5. Dressing your Age: Fashioning the Ageing Body of Performers and Fans
6. Styling, Race and Nation
7. Spectacle and Sexuality: Clothes, Concerts and the Carnivalesque
Conclusion: Image, Music

Index