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Title: Grrrls: Viva Rock Divas by Amy Raphael ISBN: 0-312-14109-2 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, but what it's missing really annoys me.
Comment: This book is very good, worth the money and time reading it. But I do wish the author included more bands and solo artists. Amy Raphael went all the way back to The Raincoats and Sonic Youth but LEAVES OUT Patti Smith. PJ Harvey is nowhere to be found in this book. (!!!???) Neither are L7, Babes In Toyland......you get the picture. It's missing a lot of important "rock divas".
Rating: 5
Summary: Riot Grrrrl Agenda Aside.....
Comment: While it is possible to criticize this book on the basis that the women interviewed hold little in common beyond the fact that, whoop-di-doo, they're all women, I found that it was actually this range of personalities that made the book as a whole worthwhile. Although Raphael does have an agenda in hand, to her credit she allows each individual to tell her story in her own words, and regardless of gender I think that any artist would find a source of inspiration in at least one of the women interviewed. The book includes a foreward by Deborah Harry (which alone is worth the price of admission), followed by a introduction by the author. Each interview is between 20-30 pages in length with photo. The following women are interviewed: Courtney Love (Hole), Sonya Aurora Madan & Debbie Smith (Echobelly), Bjork, Nina Gordon & Louise Post (Veruca Salt), Gina Birch (Raincoats), Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Ellyott Dragon (Sister George), Huggy Bear, Tanya Donelly (Belly), Pam Hogg (Doll), Kristin Hersh, Liz Phair.
Rating: 4
Summary: Oh no.. Courtney Love
Comment: My admiring words for this book are going to be cut short by the fact that the Courtney Love/Hole chapter focuses more on a self absorbed look at music rather than the larger. However, this peep into women in rock will leave you wanting more. You'll want to go listen to Liz Phair and change your world.
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Title: She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock and Roll by Gillian G. Gaar, Yoko Ono ISBN: 1580050786 Publisher: Seal Press (WA) Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Rock She Wrote by Evelyn McDonnell, Ann Powers ISBN: 0815410182 Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Angry Women in Rock (Angry Women in Rock) by Andrea Juno ISBN: 0965104206 Publisher: Juno Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity & Popular Music (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture) by Lori Burns, Melisse Lafrance ISBN: 0815335547 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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