Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions - Hardcover

by Julie Turley (Author), Joan Jocson-Singh (Author)

Heavy Music Mothers explores women and heavy music and how women have historically engaged with musicking as mothers. With a focus on original interviews with contemporary rock and metal mothers, this is the first scholarly study that contextualizes the challenges and contributions of mothers in rock and metal music.

Author Biography

Julie Turley is assistant professor and open education librarian at Kingsborough Community College/City University of New York in Brooklyn.
Joan Jocson-Singh is library director at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, CA.