Hole's Live Through This

Courtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow she is pitied, and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, Live Through This , awoke a feminist consciousness in a generation of young listeners. Live Through This arrived in 1994, at a tumultuous point in the history of American music. Three years earlier Nirvana's Nevermind had broken open the punk underground, and the first issue of a zine called Riot Grrrl had been published. Hole were of this context and yet outside of it: too famous for the strict punk ethics of riotgrrrl, too explicitly feminist to be the world's biggest rock band. Live Through This is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives - so why is Courtney Love's achievement as a songwriter and musician still not taken seriously, two decades on?

Product details

• Authors: Anwen Crawford, Anwyn Crawford
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9781623563776
• ISBN: 978-1-62356-377-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: 33 1/3; 33 1/3
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Punk, Rock, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Punk, Pop Music, Popular Music, Punk, New Wave & Indie, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters