![]() Shes found the untold stories behind important events and. 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. She includes herself among fangirls and is in tune with factors that motivate what to the unaffected may seem like outsize adoration. 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. Mixing occasional research and scholarly writing with interviews and personal recollections, Ewens considers music fandom from the United States, Europe, and Japan. ![]() Fangirling (a gerund) encompasses writing fan fiction, tweeting relentlessly about mundane band activities, and memorizing the canon of Harry Styles’s songs, both with and without One Direction. ![]() Ewens incorporates elements from her own life, mingled with interviews with Beyoncé’s Beyhive, Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters, and fans who screamed themselves hoarse at Beatles appearances or waited for hours for tickets to see Britney Spears. ![]() To become a star, an appreciative audience is necessary, but what moves an admirer from supporter to fangirl status, a term that now encompasses all genders? Journalist Ewens (features editor, Vice) focuses on the dedicated, sometimes passionate fangirls who may obsess but don’t cross the line into stanning (a mix of stalker and fan). ![]()
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