Abigail Gardner is Reader in Music and Media at the University of Gloucestershire, UK and writes on ageing, temporality and marginality, particularly in relation to women and popular music. Her publications include Popular Music and Aging in Europe (2019), PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance (2015) and Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music (2012). She is a founder member of http://wamuog.co.uk, has led Erasmus + media and storytelling projects and produced 'In My Own Right', a documentary short (Zinder and Gardner, 2019) about two women's relationship in a small Orthodox community.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 More than Music: Female Rock Memoirs; Chapter 2 Shirley Collins and Calypso Rose: Grand Maternal Queens; Chapter 3 ‘Tilted’: The Queer Ages and Sideways Spaces of Janelle Monáe, Christine and the Queens and Anohni; Chapter 4 Ageing with Alt-Rock and Folk; Chapter 5 Rude Girls: Ageing, Race and Place; Chapter 6 'They’re Not Going to Give Me Stormzy': Ageing Matters Behind the Scenes; Afterword Age Stages, a Reflection; Bibliography; Index

Abigail Gardner is Reader in Music and Media at the University of Gloucestershire, UK and writes on ageing, temporality and marginality, particularly in relation to women and popular music. Her publications include Popular Music and Aging in Europe (2019), PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance (2015) and Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music (2012). She is a founder member of http://wamuog.co.uk, has led Erasmus + media and storytelling projects and produced 'In My Own Right', a documentary short (Zinder and Gardner, 2019) about two women's relationship in a small Orthodox community.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 More than Music: Female Rock Memoirs; Chapter 2 Shirley Collins and Calypso Rose: Grand Maternal Queens; Chapter 3 ‘Tilted’: The Queer Ages and Sideways Spaces of Janelle Monáe, Christine and the Queens and Anohni; Chapter 4 Ageing with Alt-Rock and Folk; Chapter 5 Rude Girls: Ageing, Race and Place; Chapter 6 'They’re Not Going to Give Me Stormzy': Ageing Matters Behind the Scenes; Afterword Age Stages, a Reflection; Bibliography; Index

Abigail Gardner is Reader in Music and Media at the University of Gloucestershire, UK and writes on ageing, temporality and marginality, particularly in relation to women and popular music. Her publications include Popular Music and Aging in Europe (2019), PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance (2015) and Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music (2012). She is a founder member of http://wamuog.co.uk, has led Erasmus + media and storytelling projects and produced 'In My Own Right', a documentary short (Zinder and Gardner, 2019) about two women's relationship in a small Orthodox community.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 More than Music: Female Rock Memoirs; Chapter 2 Shirley Collins and Calypso Rose: Grand Maternal Queens; Chapter 3 ‘Tilted’: The Queer Ages and Sideways Spaces of Janelle Monáe, Christine and the Queens and Anohni; Chapter 4 Ageing with Alt-Rock and Folk; Chapter 5 Rude Girls: Ageing, Race and Place; Chapter 6 'They’re Not Going to Give Me Stormzy': Ageing Matters Behind the Scenes; Afterword Age Stages, a Reflection; Bibliography; Index