She's found the untold stories behind important events and uncovered the ups, the downs and the lengths fans go to, celebrating the camaraderie and lifelines their fandoms can provide. A dedicated music lover herself, she has spoken to hundreds of fans from the UK to Japan to trace their path through recent pop and rock history. In Fangirls: Scenes From Modern Music Culture, journalist Hannah Ewens is on a mission to give these individuals their rightful due. This is the discovery Hannah Ewens makes in Fangirls: how music fandom is at once a journey of self-definition and a conduit for connection and camaraderie how it is both complicated and empowering and how now, more than ever, fandoms composed of girls and young queer people create cultures that shape and change an entire industry. Now, concerts wouldn't sell out and revenue streams from merchandising would disappear, changing the face of the music industry as we know it. Yet without these people, in the past, records would have gathered dust on shelves, unsold and forgotten. Frequently derided, their worlds and communities are self-contained and rarely investigated by cultural historians and commentators. But marginalized fan groups are never given appropriate credit. A FINANCIAL TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019įrom Beatlemania in the early 1960s to the Directioners and Beyhive of today, female music fans have long driven the objects of their affection to the dizzying heights of life-changing fame.
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