Electric ladyland : women and rock culture / Lisa L. Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodes, Lisa L.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and music.

Women rock musicians.

Rock music--Social aspects.

Rock music.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2005]

Summary:

With the explosion of rock music in the mid-1960s, women arrived-as performers, critics, and fans. While operating in radically different ways within rock culture, female musicians, journalists, and groupies rewrote women's roles on and off the stage in the 1960s and 1970s.

Electric Ladyland is a social and cultural history of this formative era in rock and roll, examining how the changing roles of women were intertwined with the evolution of the music. Articles and reviews from Rolling Stone and the Village Voice provide a window on a time when female musicians such as Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, and Joni Mitchell battled sexism from concert promoters and mainly male reviewers. Feminist rock journalists, however, were coming into their own. In particular, Ellen Willis, music critic for the New Yorker, and Lillian Roxon, author of the influential Rock Encyclopedia, transformed the way society perceived sometimes marginalized female performers.

At the same time, the groupie was born, and Rhodes devotes considerable attention to the rise of this phenomenon. Through journalistic accounts as well as personal interviews with groupies of the 1960s and 1970s, she explores these women's dual legacy of self-assertion and promiscuous behavior that resonates to this day through the popularity of such films as Almost Famous.

Deeply informed by critical media studies and drawing on diverse and rich sources, Electric Ladyland assesses the lasting effects of cultural representations on female sexuality and gender roles.

Contents:

1 The Tenor of the Times 1

2 Women Rockers on the Printed Page 41

3 Rock Women Who Wrote 89

Baron Wolman's Photo Gallery of Rock Women from the 1960s 123

4 The Birth of the Groupie 135

5 Groupies Take the National Stage 158

6 Second-Generation Groupies 214.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 257]-299) and index.

ISBN:

0812238400

081221899X

OCLC:

56324709