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Women in rock memoirs : music, history, and life-writing / edited by Cristina Garrigós and Marika Ahonen.

Garrigós, Cristina, (editor.). Ahonen, Marika, (editor.).

Summary:

"This volume presents a collection of essays on memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards. Scholars from different research areas and countries address the study of this topic with the common goal to explore how these memoirs narrate the experiences of life and the difficulties that they had to overcome, not only as artists but as women. Thus, this collection of essays is a valuable contribution to the vindication of the role of women in rock music, as well as a worthwhile document to explore the dynamics of the memoir as a genre. By including in the analysis memoirs written by well-known artists, but also about less well-known ones, and artists outside the Anglo-American frame, this book hopes to bring more understanding of the similarities and differences between the women in rock and the choices they have made when writing their books"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780197659335
ISBN: 0197659330
Physical Description: ix, 248 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Cristina Garrigós and Marika Ahonen -- Part 1. Memory, Trauma, and Writing. Childhood Trauma and the Musical In-Between in Memoirs by Astrid Swan and Dory Previn / Astrid Joutseno ; 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 / Cristina Garrigós ; Ángel Chaparro. Memory and Writing in Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band / Marika Ahonen ; Memory, Truth, and Narrative Ethics in Christina Rosenvinge's Debut -- Part 2. Authenticity, Sexuality, and Sexism. Jayne County, Laura Jane Grace, and the HerStory of Transgender Punks in America / Karen Fournier ; A Portrait of the Artist as a Punk : Authenticity and the Woman Musician in Debbie Harry's Face It / Margaret Henderson ; "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 / Wayne Heisler ; The Art of Performing Authenticity : a study of Amanda Palmer's memoir / Beatriz A. Medeiros ; The Punk, the Rebel, and the Cowboy : Queering Masculine Spaces in Patti Smith's memoirs / Amy McCarthy -- Part 3. Aging, Performance, and the Image. Queens of Noise : Rewriting the 'Rock Chick' Identity through Neon Angel and Living Like A Runaway / Jacqueline Dickin ; Humanizing Icon : Collaboration and Control in Grace Jones's I'll Never Write My Memoirs / Satoko Naito ; Power in the Eye of the Beholder : Authoring Text and Image in the Female Rock Memoir / Silvia Hernandez Hellin ; Cosey Fanni Tutti, Age and Place / Abigail Gardner.