| Description |
xvi, 426 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Samantha Irby -- Introduction: I have a strange relationship with music -- Part I: Chicago -- Part II: Real/Fake -- Part III: Death/Redemption -- Part IV: Nostalgia -- Part V: California -- Part VI: Strictly business -- Part VII: Desire, power, pleasure -- Part VIII: Personal/Political -- Part IX: She said -- Afterword. |
| Summary |
"Throughout her career, spanning more than two decades, Jessica Hopper, a revered and pioneering music critic, has examined women recording and producing music, in all genres, through an intersectional feminist lens. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic features oral histories of bands like Hole and Sleater Kinney, interviews with the women editors of 1970s-era Rolling Stone, and intimate conversations with iconic musicians such as Björk, Robyn, and Lido Pimienta. Hopper journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl's empowering insurgence; decamps to Gary, Indiana, on the eve of Michael Jackson's death; explodes the grunge-era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love; and examines the rise of emo. The collection also includes profiles and reviews of some of the most-loved, and most-loathed, women artists making music today: Fiona Apple, Kacey Musgraves, M.I.A., Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey. In order for the music industry to change, Hopper writes, we need "the continual presence of radicalized women . . . being encouraged and given reasons to stay, rather than diminished by the music which glues our communities together." The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic-published to acclaim in 2015, and reissued now with new material and an introduction by Samantha Irby-is a rallying cry for women-centered history and storytelling, and a groundbreaking, obsessive, razor-sharp panorama of music writing crafted by one of the most influential critics of her generation."--Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Rock music -- 2001-2010 -- History and criticism.
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Rock music -- 2011-2020 -- History and criticism.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| Added Author |
Irby, Samantha, writer of foreword.
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Hopper, Jessica.
Chance the Rapper is the next big thing from Chicago.
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Hopper, Jessica.
Viva la filthy noise!
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Hopper, Jessica.
Sweet things.
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Hopper, Jessica.
Lil' Squirt.
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Hopper, Jessica.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Oswego.
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Hopper, Jessica.
Pogoing across borders.
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Hopper, Jessica.
"Stomach-churning" sexual assault accusations against R. Kelly.
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Hopper, Jessica.
We can't stop.
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Hopper, Jessica.
Gaga takes a trip.
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Hopper, Jessica.
Deconstructing Lana Del Rey.
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| ISBN |
9780374538996 (paperback) |
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0374538999 (paperback) |
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