Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions

Heavy Music Mothers explores women and heavy music, highlighting the ways in which women have historically engaged with musicking as mothers. It employs ethnographic lenses, original interviews, rock music memoirs, and autoethnographic portions to present a comprehensive view of motherhood identity within the context of heavy music. The authors acknowledge the limitations of the book and suggest that future research should focus on historically marginalized moms.

Format: Hardback
Length: 152 pages
Publication date: 21 April 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions is a groundbreaking exploration of women and heavy music, shedding light on the historical engagement of women with musicking as mothers. Julie Turley and Joan Jocson-Singh, musicking mothers themselves, employ an ethnographic lens, featuring powerful one-on-one original interviews as vignettes that narrate thematic patterns. Other chapters delve into motherhood identity embedded in 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, with one chapter presenting the concept of vigilante motherhood within an auto-ethnographic context. The authors acknowledge the book's limitations, reflecting on historically marginalized moms and expressing their hope for a more inclusive future. Heavy Music Mothers is a significant study of women and motherhood within a music culture that has historically been unwelcoming to both women and mothers. As the first scholarly study of this topic, it paves the way for further exploration and understanding.

Weight: 382g
Dimension: 159 x 237 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666916157