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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826701603321

Autore

Carson Mina Julia

Titolo

Girls rock! : fifty years of women making music / / Mina Carson, Tisa Lewis, Susan M. Shaw ; with a foreword by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

0-8131-2904-4

0-8131-5010-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

781.66/082

Soggetti

Women rock musicians

Feminism and music

Rock music - History and criticism

Music - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Girls with guitars -- Sex, race, and rock'n'roll -- The singer and the song -- The girls in the band -- Imagine my surprise! : the women's music movement -- Who's that girl? : women and image in rock 'n'roll -- The business -- Survival : ("pretty good for a girl").

Sommario/riassunto

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 stories, topics emerge that illuminate broader trends in rock's history. From Wanda Jackson's revolutio