Girl Groups Girl Culture

<p>While there were over 1500 girl groups recorded in the sixties -- including key hitmakers like the Ronettes the Supremes and the Shirelles -- studies of girl-group music that address race gender class and sexuality have only just begun to appear. <em>Girl Groups Girl Culture</em> is a landmark study of this important pop music and cultural phenomenon. Warwick is the first writer to address sixties girl group music from the perspective of its most significant audience -- teenage girls -- drawing on current research in psychology and sociology to explore the important place of this repertoire in the emotional development of young girls of the baby boom generation.</p>