Teenyboppers, Groupies, and Other Grotesques: Girls and Women and Rock Culture in the 1960s and early 1970s

Coates, Norma

doi:10.1111/j.1533-1598.2003.tb00115.x

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“…Feminist writers, reflecting on groupies from the 1960s and 1970s, asserted that rock music could never have reached its meteoric level of popularity without the support of rabid female fans and groupies (Coates 2007;Kerr-Fenn 2002). Without women's sexual desire for rock stars, millions fewer albums would have been sold.…”

Section: Gender and Sexuality In Heavy Metalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sex and Gender in the 1980s Heavy Metal Scene: Groupies, Musicians, and Fans Recall Their Experiences

Howe

Frıedman

2014

Sexuality & Culture

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Groupies, heavy metal musicians, and highly devoted fans (metalheads) were some of the most salient identity groups for teenagers and emerging adults in the 1980s-the tail end of the Baby Boom and the beginning of the newly emerging Generation X. Met with appalled reactions from conventional society, the heavy metal scene nevertheless appeared to help at least some disenchanted youth negotiate turbulent times. The present study of 144 middle-aged 1980s groupies, metal fans, and professional musicians used both quantitative and qualitative data to develop insights into the developmental processes of these emerging adults of the 1980s. Metalheads described their childhood experiences, including maltreatment, their sexual and substance use activities in the 1980s, identity issues, and reported on current indicators of adjustment, such as education, mental health, and happiness. The results confirm that youth involved in the metal scene had high rates of substance use, risky sexual behaviors, and especially for groupies, traumatic childhood experiences, as well as drug dependence and sexual violence during their groupie days. However, despite their trauma and risky behaviors, participants were able to thrive and develop healthy adult lives, from which they look back fondly on those 1980s experiences. The richness of these data provide insights into the search for identity for marginalized youth, and provide hypotheses for future research on the understudied developmental processes of such adolescent style cultures.

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Section: Gender and Sexuality In Heavy Metalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Groupies serve as emotional support for touring musicians, sexual comfort during long tours, and muses for the music itself. Many rock stars have written songs about and have even fallen in love with and married their groupies (Coates 2007;Kerr-Fenn 2002).…”

Section: Gender and Sexuality In Heavy Metalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sex and Gender in the 1980s Heavy Metal Scene: Groupies, Musicians, and Fans Recall Their Experiences

Howe

Frıedman

2014

Sexuality & Culture

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“…a psychological dependence upon precisely those Others which are being rigorously opposed and excluded at the social level. (5; emphasis in original) Coates (2003) argues that teenyboppers and groupies have functioned as low-Others within rock culture, and that the disdain toward them typifies Stallybrass's and White's (1986) notion of displaced abjection (67). Displaced abjection is "the process whereby 'low' social groups turn their figurative and actual power, not against those in authority, but against those who are even 'lower'" (Stallybrass and White 1986: 53; emphasis in original).…”

Section: Mapping Body Genres Of Musicmentioning

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In Excess? Body Genres, “Bad” Music, and the Judgment of Audiences

Meier

2008

Journal of Popular Music Studies

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“…Researchers of rock culture focus on gender (Coates, 2007;Afanasyev, 2018), national aspects (Dyukin & Samoylova, 2018;Boyarskaya, 2016;Kozhevnikova, 2013;Kumichev, 2014), art criticism (Pigulevsky, & Mirskaya, 2018), authorship (Boykov, 2013;Gulyaeva, 2008), pragma-linguistic aspects (Khokhlova, 2016). However we can see an obvious contradiction: being bright, holistic musical-poetic theatrical action for listeners and viewers, rock music is stratified into various scientific disciplines and various research aspects.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%