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35 in-depth interviews with independent, woman-identified musicians like Ferron, Joan Osborne, Ani DiFranco, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. Laura Post has provided a comprehensive collection of interviews with thirty-five vibrant women musicians. In an industry characterized by corporate packaging and promotion, these women have distinguished themselves as independent and assertive voices. Alix Dobkin, June Millington, Margie Adams, Holly Near, Sweet...

"As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman's perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes--identity, money, love, and protest--to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain's first female music writers in a book that reads like...

This is the first book to focus on the role of education in relation to music and gender. Invoking a concept of musical patriarchy and a theory of the social construction of musical meaning, the author shows how women's musical practices and gendered musical meanings have been reproduced, hand in hand, through history. Covering a wide range of music, including classical, jazz and popular styles, the author uses ethnographic methods to convey the everyday...

Popular Music, Gender, and Postmodernism: Anger Is an Energy begins by tracing the migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism. The result has been a widespread fatalism over the presumed ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in hip hop and rock. Commercial "incorporation" supposedly makes a charade of musical outrage, somehow disconnecting anger in music from any meaning or significance....

A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant figure of musical life in Florence for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her performances and the sparkling wit of the music that she wrote for more than a dozen court theatricals, Caccini is best remembered today as the first woman to have composed opera. Francesca...

Jazz, it is widely accepted, is the signal original American contribution to world culture. Angela Davis shows us how the roots of that form in the blues must be viewed not only as a musical tradition but as a life-sustaining vehicle for an alternative black working-class collective memory and social consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American middle-class values. And she explains how the tradition of black women blues singers - represented...