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Frock rock : women performing popular music

Author: Mavis Bayton
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This is the first study of women's popular music-making based on academic research. It is based on over 100 in-depth interviews as well as participant observation by the author, a sociologist, who has herself played in various bands since punk. Bayton covers the period from the late 1970s until the mid 1990s, focussing mainly on women instrumentalists in female and mixed bands. Amongst others, interviewees include
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Genre/Form: Interviews
Entretiens
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mavis Bayton
ISBN: 019816615X 9780198166153
OCLC Number: 39108564
Description: xii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. The Position of Women in Popular Music --
2. Constraints --
3. Routes into Rock --
4. Punks, Feminists, Lesbians, and Riot Grrrls --
5. Joining a Band --
6. Going Public --
7. Going Professional --
8. Conclusion --
App. 1. Media Surveys 1988 and 1996.
Responsibility: Mavis Bayton.
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Abstract:

"This is the first study of women's popular music-making based on academic research. It is based on over 100 in-depth interviews as well as participant observation by the author, a sociologist, who has herself played in various bands since punk. Bayton covers the period from the late 1970s until the mid 1990s, focussing mainly on women instrumentalists in female and mixed bands. Amongst others, interviewees include Skin from Skunk Anansie, Debbie Smith from Echobelly, Candida Doyle from Pulp, Gail Greenwood from Belly and L7, Natasha Atlas from Transglobal Underground, and Vi Subversa from Poison Girls."--BOOK JACKET.

"Although female vocalists have always been common, women playing instruments in bands are still proportionally rare. Frock Rock explores the social factors that keep women from playing and those routes that have enabled women's involvement. The book then examines the everyday worlds of women's music-making from bands just starting up to the professional stage: songwriting, rehearsing, the first gig, getting a manager, record companies, recording, and touring."--BOOK JACKET. "Frock Rock will become a key text in cultural studies, media studies, women's studies, and sociology of culture courses."--BOOK JACKET.

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