Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music

ISBN-13: 9780198166153 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 264 str.

Mavis Bayton

Opis

This is a study of women playing instruments in bands: pop, rock, indie, soul etc. from the punk era until today. The author, an academic and musician, carried out over 100 interviews with women playing in British bands from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. Although the book is primarily sociological, it is easily accessible to the general reader and rich with quotations. It explains the shortage of female instrumentalists and explores the routes and life experiences that have been taken by those exceptional women who do play in bands.

Recenzje

This is the best study I know of the everyday life of the popular musician, packed with insights about the sheer hard work of music making, and salutary reading for anyone who's ever thought that rock stars are just lucky.

O autorze

Mavis Bayton is Tutor in Sociology, Ruskin College, Oxford