Backstage Pass: Interviews With Women in Music - Softcover

Laura Post

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934678847 ISBN 13: 9780934678841

Publisher: New Victoria Publishers, 1997

A comprehensive collection of interviews by Laura Post, with forty women musicians, such as Ani DiFranco, Joan Osborne, Holly Near, Alix Dobkin, Cris Williamson, Janis Ian, Joan Osborne, Marianne Faithful, Ronnie Gilbert Sweet Honey in the Rock and Kay Gardner. Includes forty black and white photographs of the womyn musicians and a forward by Dar Williams.

Review:

Reading the table of contents of this collection of 40 interviews with female musicians is like, as the song says, a trip down memory lane. About half the subjects--Cris Williamson, June Millington, Linda Tillery, and Robin Flower among them--were part of the Olivia Records scene; they explain why they needed to invent "women's music" in the 1970s. Other musicians, such as Phranc, Ani DiFranco, and Laura Love, acknowledge their debt to their feminist foremothers, while women who rock with men, such as Moe Tucker, former Velvet Underground drummer, and Kristin Hersh, the front woman for Throwing Muses, discuss how mainstream music has been affected by increased numbers of women in the industry.

About the Author:

Judith Post is a practicing psychiatrist as well as a freelance writer whose articles, reviews, and interviews have been published in over one hundred and thirty newspapers and magazines. She has been a fan of women's music for years.