Fashion and Music

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.<br/><br/>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.