"Now I'm a Happy Dyke!": Creating Collective Identity and Queer Community in Greenham Women's Songs

Considers how songs created and sung at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in Newbury, England played a significant role in the creation of the protestors' collective identities and queer communities. Documentary sources used include songsheets, songbooks, films, and documented account...

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Published in:Journal of popular music studies 2010-12, Vol.22 (4), p.367-388
Main Author: Feigenbaum, Anna
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Considers how songs created and sung at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in Newbury, England played a significant role in the creation of the protestors' collective identities and queer communities. Documentary sources used include songsheets, songbooks, films, and documented accounts of singing in newsletters, anthologies, diary entries, web sites and recorded interviews. The online archive of Holger Terp provided the majority of source material. (Quotes from original text)
ISSN:1524-2226
1533-1598
DOI:10.1111/j.1533-1598.2010.01251.x