Girls Rock!: Fifty Years of Women Making Music
by Mina Carson
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With a foreword by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Girls Rock! explores the many ways women have defined themselves as rock musicians in an industry once dominated and controlled by men. Integrating history, feminist analysis, and developmental theory, the authors describe how and why women have become rock musicians -- what inspires them to play and perform, how they write, what their music means to them, and what they hope their music means to listeners. As these musicians tell their show more stories, topics emerge that illuminate broader trends in rock's history. From Wanda Jackson's revolutio show lessTags
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Informative, interesting, and insightful but ham-fisted writing and structure.
Wonderful book. I highly recommend it, if you're interested in the subject.
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- Music, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 781.66 — Arts & recreation Music General principles and musical forms Traditions of music Rock (Rock 'n' roll)
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- ML82 .C37 — Music Literature on music Literature on music Aspects of the field of music as a whole
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