YOU DON’ T OWN ME: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LESLEY GORE

Book ID/图书代码： 05793015B82442

English Summary/英文概要： 1963—tail fins were in, sock hops were hot, and a fairytale white knight was president. That summer, sixteen-year-old singer Lesley Gore released her debut single, “It’s My Party,”propelling her to Number One on the charts. For the next several years, the crowned Princess of Pop dominated the radio with a string of hits including “Judy’s Turn to Cry,” “She’s a Fool,”“Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows,” and the rousing anthem for independence, “You Don’t Own Me,” making her the most successful and influential solo female artist of the ’60s. But beneath the bubblegum façade was a girl squirming against social and professional pressures to simply be herself and to forge a future where she could write and perform music beyond the trappings of teenage angst and love triangles. Assembled over five years of research and interviews, this is the first and long overdue biography of Lesley Gore, one of pop music’s pioneering Mothers, which chronicles her meteoric rise to fame,her devastating fall from popularity, and struggle for relevance in the 1970s, and her reemergence as a powerful songwriter,political activist, and camp icon. The biography includes behind-the-scenes stories about the making of her hit records, debunks or clarifies popular myths about her career, and places her remarkable life and times within a historical context to reveal how her music was both impacted by, and contributed to, each decade of her astounding fifty-year career.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1963年----那一年，汽车尾翅正流行，赤足舞会也正当红，童话般的白面骑士成了总统。那一年夏天，16岁的歌手莱斯利•格尔初次一展歌喉，一曲《这是我的舞会》让她登上了榜单首位。在随后的数年中，这名流行音乐的公主更是凭借其一系列热单主宰了各大电台广播，其中包括经典曲目Judy’s Turn to Cry,” “She’s a Fool,”“Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows,”也不乏激越人心的独立颂歌“You Don’t Own Me,（《我是自己的主宰》）”，使其成为了六十年代最为成功也最具影响力的女独唱艺术家。然而在这些泡泡糖般地摇滚舞曲曲风的背后，是女孩通过扭动与摇摆表现出的对社会以及职业压力的反抗，她渴望的仅仅是做最真实的自己，打造着一个属于她的未来，在那里她可以自由地创作和表演音乐而无需受到青少年们特有的愤怒情绪以及三角恋爱关系的束缚。经历了长达5年的调查研究和采访后，这部迄今为止第一部同时也是早该问世的莱斯利•格尔传记终于得以与广大读者见面，莱斯利无疑是是一名潮流先锋和流行音乐之母，本书记录了她流星般地一夜成名以及其充满沉重打击的过气，然而更重要的是她在70年代努力的恢复自己昔日的光彩，以及她作为一名有力的词曲作家，政治活跃分子以及Camp偶像的强势回归。本传记作品将收入其热单创作的背后故事，揭开其流行音乐神话及其事业背后的神秘面纱，在当时的历史环境背景中去看待其精彩的一生与她的时代，从而解读她的音乐作品是如何与其传奇的50年音乐生涯所相影响与促动。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：本书出现在全国各大媒体宣传渠道，从音乐界到主流媒体出版物，再到网上批发商店，其中包括《纽约时报》《洛杉矶时报》，Billboard排行榜，以及《娱乐周刊》等。

National media outreach to music and mainstream print and online outlets, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times,Billboard, and Entertainment Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： 特雷弗•托利弗（兰考•扣克蒙哥，加利福尼亚），从小在加利福尼亚杜阿尔特长大，他首先于加州州立理工大学波莫纳分校获得了第一个学位，而其音乐教育则来源于其父母及他们所珍藏的老唱片。特雷弗•托利弗现担任莫圣安东尼奥大学学院的英语专业副教授，主要负责教授文学以及发展性写作。作者现与其丈夫，四个活泼的儿子以及两只欢乐的天竺鼠共同生活。

TREVOR TOLLIVER (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) was raised in Duarte, California, and received his formal degrees from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, and his musical education from his mom and dad and their stacks of oldies records. Trevor Tolliver is currently an adjunct English professor at Mount San Antonio College where he teaches literature and developmental writing. He lives with his husband, four active sons, and two jolly guinea pigs.

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