Swoon

Fangirls, Their Idols and the Counterculture of Female Lust – From Byron to the Beatles

New Hardback Illustrated

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With the premise that ‘behind every sigh and squeal, the seeds of a revolution were blowing’, Bea Martinez-Gatell reassesses the role of the fangirl in book, film and music history. From the devotion inspired by Byron in the early 1800s to the Beatlemania that swept through the 1960s, she demonstrates how young women can create iconic figures out of their heroes and play a decisive role in shaping cultural history.

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