Women Icons of Popular Music: The Rebels, Rockers, and Renegades [2 volumes]

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Carrie Havranek
Bloomsbury Academic, 30 նոյ, 2008 թ. - 568 էջ


Popular music owes greatly to the spirit of rebellion. In all of its diversified, experimental, modern-day micro-genres, music's roots were first watered by good old-fashioned social dissension- its incendiary heights pushed heavenward by radicals and rogue revolutionaries. And perhaps none are more influential and non-conformist than women. Always first in line to give convention a sound thrashing, women in music have penned sonic masterpieces, championed sweeping social movements, and breathed life into sounds yet unimagined. Today's guitar-wielding heroines continue to blaze the trail, tapping reservoirs and soundscapes still unknown to their male counterparts- hell hath no fury like a woman with an amplifier.

Women Icons of Popular Music puts the limelight on 24 legendary artists who challenged the status quo and dramatically expanded the possibilities of women in the highly competitive music world. Using critical acclaim and artistic integrity as benchmarks of success, this can't-put-down resource features rich biographical and musical analyses of a diverse array of musicians from country, pop, rock, R&B, soul, indie, and hip-hop. It goes beyond the shorter, less detailed biographical information found in many women in rock compendiums by giving readers a more in-depth understanding of these artists as individuals, as well as providing a larger context-social, musical, political, and personal-for their success and legacy.

Highlighted in sidebars throughout are related trends, movements, events, and issues to give readers a broad perspective of the defining moments in music and pop culture history. With discographies, illustrations, and a print and electronic resource guide, Women Icons of Popular Music is a rousing, insightful resource for students and music fans alike.
Tori Amos

Joan Baez

Mary J. Blige

Patsy Cline

Ani DiFranco

Aretha Franklin

Janis Joplin

Carole King

Madonna

Joni Mitchell

Diana Ross

Patti Smith

Tina Turner

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CARRIE HAVRANEK has written about music for The Village Voice, Salon, Paste and Performing Songwriter, and as a contributor to Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 (Schirmer, 2004). She received an M.A. from New York University and teaches writing at Lafayette College in Easton, PA.

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ՎերնագիրWomen Icons of Popular Music: The Rebels, Rockers, and Renegades [2 volumes]
Greenwood Icons
EditorCarrie Havranek
Editionillustrated
ՀրատարակիչBloomsbury Academic, 2008
Original fromՄիչիգանի համալսարան
Digitized17 Սեպտեմբեր 2010
ISBN0313340838, 9780313340833
Length568 էջ
  
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