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

10 best books like Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap (Evelyn McDonnell): The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal, She's A Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll, A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution, Angry Women in Rock: Volume One, Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992, It's So You: 35 Women Write about Personal Expression Through Fashion & Style, Grrrls: Viva Rock Divas, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music

The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
AuthorCharlie Gillett
ISBN0306806835
When I was 10 years old in 1958 my parents bought me my own radio for my birthday. It was red and about the size of my Roy Rogers tin lunch box. It had a single speaker in the middle and a big round dial on either side of the speaker, one for volume and one to tune in stations. Our family had a big Philco radio in the...
What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal
AuthorLaina Dawes
ISBN1935950053
What Are You Doing Here? investigates how black women musicians and fans navigate the metal, hardcore, and punk music genres that are regularly thought of as inclusive spaces and centered on a community spirit, but fail to block out the race and gender issues that exist in the outside world.

“The...
She's A Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll
AuthorGillian G. Gaar
ISBN1580050786
Gillian G. Gaar’s critically acclaimed, breakthrough book, the first full history of women in rock and pop ever written, 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...
A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution
AuthorKaren Green
ISBN0312155352
In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the production of zines.

On the forefront of this cut-and-paste revolution have been those zines made specifically by and for young women. The words and images that have come to define many young women's lives have long been overlooked and under...
Angry Women in Rock: Volume One
AuthorAndrea Juno
ISBN0965104206
This book takes off where Gillian Garr's 1992 She's A Rebel leaves off, and is a perfect companion volume for that great book. It features interviews (that read like thoughtful essays) with Joan Jett, Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill), Valerie Agnew (7 Year Bitch), Lois Maffeo, Naomi Yang (Galaxie 500),...
Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
AuthorGreil Marcus
ISBN0674445775
Was punk just another moment in music history, a flash in time when a group of young rebels exploded in a fury of raw sound, outrageous styles, and in-your-face attitude? Greil Marcus, author of the renowned "Lipstick Traces," delves into the after-life of punk as a much richer phenomenon a form of artistic...
It's So You: 35 Women Write about Personal Expression Through Fashion & Style
AuthorMichelle Tea
ISBN1580052150
It's So You explores the intersection between personal style and personal expression through lively personal essays by thirty-five top women writers—including two artists. In a culture that uses oppressive beauty standards to influence and determine what’s hot, how do women manage to find...
Grrrls: Viva Rock Divas
AuthorAmy Raphael
ISBN0312141092
This book made me fall in love with music.

I know, I know. That is pretty cheesy. But it is completely and 100% true. Before this book, I had never heard of Veruca Salt or Belly, I thought Bjork was a weirdo and Liz phair was a has-been.

Now?

Veruca Salt is one of my favorite hard-rock...
The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll
AuthorSimon Reynolds
Iggy Pop once said of women: "However close they come I'll always pull the rug from under them. That's where my music is made." For so long, rock 'n' roll has been fueled by this fear and loathing of the feminine. The first book to look at rock rebellion through the lens of gender, The Sex Revolts captures...
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music
AuthorEllen Willis
ISBN0816672830
In 1968, the New Yorker hired Ellen Willis as its first popular music critic. Her column, Rock, Etc., ran for seven years and established Willis as a leader in cultural commentary and a pioneer in the nascent and otherwise male-dominated field of rock criticism. As a writer for a magazine with a circulation...
Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground
AuthorMaria Raha
ISBN1580051162
Cinderella’s Big Score celebrates the contributions of punk’s oft-overlooked female artists, explores the latent—and not so latent—sexism of indie rock (so often thought of as the hallowed ground of progressive movements), and tells the story of how these women created spaces for themselves...
Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes, and The Sound Of Los Angeles
AuthorBarney Hoskyns
No city in the western world exerts such a fascination as the damned paradise of Los Angeles. For decades an uneasy mix of glamour and debauchery has served as a magnet for everything venial and diseased. Waiting for the Sun offers an excavation of L.A.'s dark, detailed, and twisted music scene, from...
A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer
AuthorRichard Meltzer
ISBN0306809532
He is one of the inventors of rock criticism. His first book, The Aesthetics of Rock (acclaimed by Greil Marcus as "a disemboweling of rock's soft white underbelly"), became an instant cult classic when published in 1970. And for the next thirty years he fearlessly expanded the boundaries of music writing....
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
AuthorSusan McClary
ISBN0816641897
A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. “. . . this is a major book . . . [McClary’s] achievement borders on the miraculous.”...
She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop & Soul
AuthorLucy O'Brien
ISBN0140251553
Popular music grew out of ragtime, vaudeville and the blues to become global mass entertainment. Yet nearly eighty years after Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith first blazed the trail, have their female successors achieved the recognition and affirmation they deserve? The first hands-on history of women...
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
AuthorDave Tompkins
ISBN1933633883
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon

The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the...
Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco
AuthorPeter Shapiro
ISBN0571211941
A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned it
Disco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in the past forty years. Yet, like its pop cultural peers punk and hip hop, it was born of a period of profound...
Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now!
AuthorNadine Monem
ISBN1906155011
Beginning in 1980s Washington State with the rallying cry of "revolution girl style now!" riot girl spread like wildfire through the American underground and across Europe, inspiring women to make a cultural space for themselves where there wasn't one before. Riot Grrrl; Revolution Girl Style Now!...
Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America
AuthorAnn Powers
ISBN0306810247
American bohemia is alive and well and redefining the way all of us live, love, and work: so declares Ann Powers in an invigorating blend of criticism, journalism, and autobiography that takes us into the heart of alternative America today. Powers, one of the nation's most notable music critics, explores...
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory
AuthorDavid Toop
ISBN1852427892
Digital technology has changed the ways in which music is perceived, stored, distributed, mediated and created. The world of music is now a vast and complex jungle, teeming with CDs, MP3s, concerts, clubs, festivals, conferences, exhibitions, installations, websites, software programmes, scenes,...
Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture
AuthorKaya Oakes
ISBN0805088520
A lively examination of the spirit and practices that have made the indie movement into a powerful cultural phenomenon

You know the look: skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors, perfectly mussed bed-head hair; You know the music: Modest Mouse, the Shins, Pavement. You know the ethos: DIY with a big helping...
The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa
AuthorEvan Eisenberg
ISBN0300099045
First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how digital technology, file trading, and other recent developments are accelerating—or reversing—these...
Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
AuthorJohn Cook
ISBN1565126246
Merge Records defies everything you’ve heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is a lesson in how to make and market great music on a human scale. The fact that the company is prospering in a failing industry is something of a miracle. Yet two of their bands...
Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album
AuthorMatthew Robertson
ISBN0811856763
A creative juggernaut of the post-punk era, Factory Records was the catalyst behind the U.K. music explosion of the late '70s through the '90s with groups like Joy Division (soon to be the subject of an Anton Corbijn movie), New Order, and Happy Mondays leading the New Wave. At Factory, musicians and...
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