Ahonen & Garrigos - Women in Rock Memoirs

Catalogue No: 9780197659335
Music, History, and Life-Writing

Product FormatBook
AuthorAhonen & Garrigos
£25.99
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Pages264
Publication Date19 November 2023
ISBN9780197659335 (0197659331)
EAN9780197659335

    Presents a new source material concerning memoirs in women's rock
  • Provides an intersectional understanding of rock memoirs
  • Offers a new focus/perspective to studying women's rock memoirs

Women in Rock Memoirs vindicates the role of women in rock music. The chapters examine memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards to explore how the artists narrate their life experiences and difficulties they had to overcome, not only as musicians but as women. The book includes memoirs written by both well-known and lesser-known artists and artists from both inside and outside of the Anglo-American sphere.

Contents

  1. 1. Cristina Garrigos and Marika Ahonen. Introduction
  2. Part 1. Memory, Trauma, and Writing
  3. 2. Astrid Joutseno. Childhood Trauma and the Musical In-Between in Memoirs by Astrid Swan and Dory Previn.
  4. 3. Cristina Garrigos: The Monster in the House: Gender-Based Violence and Punk in Alice Bag's Violence Girl: East L.A Rage to Hollywood Stage. A Chicana Punk Story.
  5. 4. Angel Chaparro. Memory and Writing in Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band
  6. 5. Marika Ahonen. Memory, Truth, and Narrative Ethics in Christina Rosenvinge's Debut.
  7. Part 2. Authenticity, Sexuality, and Sexism
  8. 6. Karen Fournier. Jayne County, Laura Jane Grace, and the HerStory of Transgender Punks in America.
  9. 7. Margaret Henderson. A Portrait of the Artist as a Punk: Authenticity and the Woman Musician in Debbie Harry's Face It.
  10. 8. Wayne Heisler. Mothers aren't sexy, What is that you're wearing, What's it like to be in an all-girl band?: Memoirs as Histories of 1980s Music Industry Sexism
  11. 9. Beatriz A. Medeiros. The Art of Performing Authenticity: a study of Amanda Palmer's memoir
  12. 10. Amy McCarthy. The Punk, the Rebel, and the Cowboy: Queering Masculine Spaces in Patti Smith's memoirs
  13. Part 3. Aging, Performance, and the Image
  14. 11. Jacqueline Dickin. Queens of Noise: Rewriting the 'Rock Chick' Identity through Neon Angel and Living Like A Runaway
  15. 12. Satoko Naito. Humanizing Icon: Collaboration and Control in Grace Jones's I'll Never Write My Memoirs.
  16. 13. Silvia Hernandez Hellin: Power in the Eye of the Beholder: Authoring Text and Image in the Female Rock Memoir
  17. 14. Abigail Gardner. Cosey Fanni Tutti, Age and Place
  18. Index
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