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Lillian Roxon : mother of rock / Robert Millikin.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML423.R77 M55 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milliken, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roxon, Lillian.
- Journalists--Australia--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Women journalists.
- Australia.
- Women journalists--Australia--Biography.
- Rock music--History and criticism.
- Rock music.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Melbourne, Vic. : Black Inc., [2002]
- Summary:
- Lillian Roxon has been called many things: the mother of rock and roll journalism, the beloved rock duchess, the Florence Nightingale of rock. Her Rock Encyclopedia, the first book of its kind, made her a New York celebrity and one of the leading authorities on rock and youth culture. Growing up in Australia during more restrictive times, she was also a woman who challenged social boundaries and confronted age-old conflicts for women who sought to break free of these boundaries. Born in Italy, Lillian escaped the rise of fascism when her family got to Australia. As a school-girl in Brisbane during the war years, and a member of the Push and an unconventional journalist in Sydney during the fifties, Lillian was a star of her generation. Her wit, irreverence and capacity for gathering the brightest people around her always made her stand out.
- In the sixties she left for New York where she became both "star and star-maker". She was the confidante of Linda McCartney and the Easybeats, the caustic observer of Andy Warhol and Jim Morrison, the "Dorothy Parker of Max's Kansas City". Drawing on Lillian Roxon's personal papers and extensive interviews with her contemporaries from Rupert Murdoch to Germaine Greer -- who dedicated The Female Eunuch to Lillian -- Robert Milliken's biography is a fascinating portrait of an Australian woman at the centre of a cultural revolution in art, music and lifestyle. Lillian Roxon: Mother of Rock also contains a generous selection of Roxon's own writing, including material from her Rock Encyclopedia which changed the way rock music was perceived.
- Contents:
- Alassio, 1930s
- Chapter 1 Where Hemingway Walked 9
- Chapter 2 Getting Out 13
- Brisbane, 1940s
- Chapter 3 New Land 21
- Chapter 4 Toowoomba 25
- Chapter 5 School Years 28
- Chapter 6 The Pink Elephant Crowd 34
- Sydney, 1950s
- Chapter 7 Where's the Party? 43
- Chapter 8 Lillian and the Libertarians 52
- Chapter 9 Jamison Street 62
- Chapter 10 Zell 72
- Chapter 11 The World of Weekend 82
- New York, 1960s
- Chapter 12 From Kennedy to the Beatles 103
- Chapter 13 Lillian and Linda 131
- Chapter 14 Rock Encyclopedia 156
- Chapter 15 Lillian and Germaine 174
- Chapter 16 Freedom's Trap 199
- Lillian Roxon: Selected Writings
- From Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia (1969) 237
- Will Success Spoil Lillian Roxon? 327
- There is a Tide in the Affairs of Women 336
- The Other Germaine Greer: A Manicured Hand on the Zipper 339
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- The Band That Means Business 343.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-234), selected writings of Lillian Roxon (p. 235-347), and index.
- ISBN:
- 1863951393
- OCLC:
- 52121562
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