Rock-and-Roll Woman
Rock-and-Roll Woman

Author: Meredith Ochs

Publisher: Union Square + ORM

Published: 2018-10-23

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 1454933534

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This “crisp, absorbing” fully illustrated tribute to fifty iconic female musicians and bands is “a must for rock and roll and women's studies enthusiasts.” (Library Journal) Award-winning radio personality Meredith Ochs takes an insightful look at fifty rock icons who indelibly shook up the music scene, whether solo or in a band. Profiling women from the 1950s to today, and from multiple genres, Ochs tells the dramatic stories behind their journeys to success, their music, and their enduring impact. More than 100 photographs make this a rich volume, and the idols include Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks, Heart, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, Joan Jett and the Runaways, the Go-Go’s, Karen O, Sleater-Kinney, Grace Potter, and more.

Rock 'n' Roll Woman
Rock 'n' Roll Woman

Author: Katherine Orloff

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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'Rock 'n' roll women' contains interviews with female musicians; Nicoel Barclay, Toni Brown, Rita Coolidge, and others.

Black Diamond Queens
Black Diamond Queens

Author: Maureen Mahon

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-10-09

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1478012773

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African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.

My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

Author: Tracey Thorn

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1786898241

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'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian 'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey’s music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock ’n’ roll love affairs. Thorn takes stock of thirty-seven years of friendship, teasing out the details of connection and affection between two women who seem to be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other. She asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of – and back into – history.

She's a Rebel
She's a Rebel

Author: Gillian G. Gaar

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 2002-11-29

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9781580050784

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Gaar's critically acclaimed, breakthrough book became an instant classic upon its publication in 1992. Arranged chronologically and told with impassioned detail, "She's A Rebel" charts a half century of women performers. 75 photos.

Women Who Rock
Women Who Rock

Author: Evelyn McDonnell

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 843

ISBN-13: 0316558869

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A stellar and unprecedented celebration of 104 musical artists, Women Who Rock is the most complete, up-to-date history of the evolution, influence, and importance of women in music. A gorgeous gift book, it includes a stunning, specially commissioned, full-color illustrated portrait of every musician and group. From Bessie Smith and The Supremes to Joan Baez, Madonna, BeyoncéAmy Winehouse, Dolly Parton, Sleater-Kinney, Taylor Swift, and scores more, women have played an essential and undeniable role in the evolution of popular music including blues, rock and roll, country, folk, glam rock, punk, and hip hop. Today, in a world traditionally dominated by male artists, women have a stronger influence on popular music than ever before. Yet, not since the late nineteen-nineties has there been a major work that acknowledges and pays tribute to the female artists who have contributed to, defined, and continue to make inroads in music. In Women Who Rock, writer and professor of journalism Evelyn McDonnell leads a team of women rock writers and pundits in an all-out celebration of 104 of the greatest female musicians. Organized chronologically, the book profiles each artist and places her in the context of both her genre and the musical world at large. Sidebars throughout recall key moments that shaped both the trajectory of music and how those moments influenced or were influenced by women artists. With full-color illustrated portraits by women artists, Women Who Rock will be THE long-awaited gift book for every music fan, feminist, and female rocker, young and old musicians.

Women, Sex and Rock'n'roll
Women, Sex and Rock'n'roll

Author: Liz Evans

Publisher: Pandora Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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This collection of interviews with notable women performers from the rock world focuses on both new performers with a more radical approach and the more established, but still progressive, artists working today. Rock journalist Liz Evans talks to them about their experience of sexism in the music industry, the riot girl phenomenon, whether they see the recent proliferation of women's bands as a trend that's here to stay, their perception of rock music as a barometer of popular culture, and so on.

Performing Glam Rock
Performing Glam Rock

Author: Philip Auslander

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780472068685

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Explores the many ways glam rock paved the way for new explorations of identity in terms of gender, sexuality, and performance

Girls Rock!
Girls Rock!

Author: Mina Carson

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0813150108

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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 stories, topics emerge that illuminate broader trends in rock's history. From Wanda Jackson's revolutionary act of picking up a guitar to the current success of independent artists such as Ani DiFranco, Girls Rock! examines the shared threads of these performers' lives and the evolution of women's roles in rock music since its beginnings in the 1950s. This provocative investigation of women in rock is based on numerous interviews with a broad spectrum of women performers -- those who have achieved fame and those just starting bands, those playing at local coffeehouses and those selling out huge arenas. Girls Rock! celebrates what female musicians have to teach about their experiences as women, artists, and rock musicians.

Trouble Girls
Trouble Girls

Author: Barbara O'Dair

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13:

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Essays by leading music critics look at the most important female rock musicians, singers, and groups, with profiles of Bonnie Raitt, Carol King, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Madonna, and many others.