She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock and Roll - Softcover

Gillian G. Gaar

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9781878067081: She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock and Roll

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878067087 ISBN 13: 9781878067081

Publisher: Seal Press, 1993

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A spirited retelling of rock history from the feminine perspective includes interviews, facts, lively personal anecdotes, and commentary on women's struggles in an industry long dominated by men and controlled by money. Original.

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An encyclopedic narrative of the role of women in rock and pop over the last four decades, from Big Mama Thornton, who topped the R&B charts with "Hound Dog" three years before Elvis, to the female musical powerhouses of the '90s. Compulsively readable and thoroughly entertaining, this is a spirited and much-needed retelling of rock history which has tended to treat women peripherally at best. And unlike most rock journalists, Gaar knows how to do research, and how to both tell a long story with attention to detail and keep readers' attention for a long time.

Janis Joplin, singing her gut-wrenching blues alone at the mike, always appeared to be more fatal for the singer who had dared to sing with an abandon no white female had ever attempted before. Born in 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, Joplin was marked as "different" (or in her words, "a weirdo among fools") by her peers because of her interest in music, poetry, art, and reading...As a teenager, she fell in with the all-male gang and did her best to be "one of the boys," a defiant stance in conservative Port Arthur and one not even totally acceptable to the others in the group: "When Janis was outrageous she was totally outrageous," remembered one of the "gang" in Myra Friedman's Buried Alive.

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