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Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap

by Evelyn Mcdonnell

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Book News Annotation:

Provides a brilliant mosaic of the experiences, perspectives, and contributions of 61 female musicians, singers, music journalists, novelists, poets, and cultural critics. Selections include Bell Hooks' look at Madonna's success; Patti Smith on Bob Dylan as a sex symbol; and super-groupie Pamela Des Barres' interview with Courtney Love. This paperback edition is an unabridged republication of the edition first published in New York 1995. Both authors are freelance writers.
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This groundbreaking work brings together music criticism, fan experience, and performers' first-person accounts by more than 60 women writers from the 1960s to the 1990s. Within these pages feminist cultural critic bell hooks takes a fresh and harsh look at Madonna's success; Patti Smith writes about Bob Dylan as sex symbol; Joan Morgan discusses her love/hate relationship with Ice Cube's misogynist rap; and much more.

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Brings together music criticism, fan experience, and performers' first person accounts from more that 60 women writers for 1960s to the 1990s.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780815410188
Subtitle:
Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap
Editor:
McDonnell, Evelyn
Editor:
McDonnell, Evelyn
Editor:
Powers, Ann
Editor:
Powers, Ann
Publisher:
Cooper Square Publishers
Location:
New York
Subject:
History & Criticism *
Subject:
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Subject:
Rock music
Subject:
Popular
Subject:
Rap
Subject:
Rap (music)
Subject:
Feminism and music
Subject:
History & Criticism - General
Subject:
Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal
Copyright:
1999
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
1st Cooper Square Press ed.
Series Volume:
633.
Publication Date:
October 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
477
Dimensions:
8.94x6.02x1.12 in. 1.46 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , This groundbreaking work brings together music criticism, fan experience, and performers' first-person accounts by more than 60 women writers from the 1960s to the 1990s. Within these pages feminist cultural critic bell hooks takes a fresh and harsh look at Madonna's success; Patti Smith writes about Bob Dylan as sex symbol; Joan Morgan discusses her love/hate relationship with Ice Cube's misogynist rap; and much more.
"Synopsis" by , Brings together music criticism, fan experience, and performers' first person accounts from more that 60 women writers for 1960s to the 1990s.
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