Women in rock memoirs : music, history, and life-writing / edited by Cristina Garrigós and Marika Ahonen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garrigós, Cristina, editor.

Ahonen, Marika, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women rock musicians--Biography--Authorship.

Women rock musicians.

Autobiography--Authorship.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Women in Rock Memoirs' vindicates the role of women in rock music. The chapters examine memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards to explore how the artists narrate their life experiences and difficulties they had to overcome, not only as musicians but as women. The book includes memoirs written by both well-known and lesser-known artists and artists from both inside and outside of the Anglo-American sphere.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

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Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Introduction: Female Musicians Writing Memoirs

PART I: MEMORY, TRAUMA, AND WRITING

1. Childhood Trauma and the Musical In-.Between in Memoirs by Astrid Swan and Dory Previn

2. The Monster in the House: Gender-.Based Violence and Punk in Alice Bag's Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage.

3. Memory and Writing in Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band

4. Memory, Truth, and Narrative Ethics in Christina Rosenvinge's Debut

PART II: AUTHENTICITY, SEXUALITY, AND SEXISM

5. Jayne County, Laura Jane Grace, and the HerStory of Transgender Punks in America

6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Punk: Authenticity and the Woman Musician in Debbie Harry's Face It

7. "Mothers aren't sexy," "What is that you're wearing?," "What's it like to be in an all-.girl band?": Memoirs as Histories

8. The Art of Performing Authenticity: A Study of Amanda Palmer's Memoirs

9. The Punk, the Rebel, and the Cowboy: Queering Masculine Spaces in Patti Smith's Memoirs

PART III: AGING, PERFORMANCE, AND THE IMAGE

10. Queens of Noise: Rewriting the "Rock Chick" Identity through Neon Angel and Living Like a Runaway

11. Humanizing Icon: Collaboration and Control in Grace Jones's I'll Never Write My Memoirs

12. Power in the Eye of the Beholder: Authoring Text and Image in the Female Rock Memoir

13. Cosey Fanni Tutti, Age and Place

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 17, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Garrigós, Cristina Women in Rock Memoirs

ISBN:

0-19-765936-5

0-19-765934-9

OCLC:

1380464709