She Bop - The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music

Fully revised and updated with fresh interviews and a striking new cover to celebrate its 25th anniversary, She Bop is the definitive in-depth study of women in popular music.

List of contents

Prologue
Introduction
Riffin' The Scotch
Stupid Cupid
The Real Thing
Can the Can
Final Girls
Ladies of the Canyon
Lipstick Traces
She Wears Trousers
I Wanna Dance with Somebody
In Search of our Mother's Gardens
Oye Mi Canto
Talkin' Tough
Talkin' Business
Girlpower!
The Fame
Future Feminism
Notes and Sources
Index
Acknowledgements

 

About the author

Lucy O’Brien is a writer, academic, and broadcaster. She is the co-writer of the new memoir by Skin, the lead singer of rock band Skunk Anansie (published in September 2020), and is also the author of Dusty: The Classic Biography, Annie Lennox, and Madonna: Like An Icon, which has been translated into 13 languages. She has contributed to Q, Mojo, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Quietus, and numerous anthologies, such as Mute Records: Artists, Business, History (2018) and Voicing Girlhood In Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity (2016). She played in all-girl band The Catholic Girls, and is currently working on a memoir about punk and feminism.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy O'Brien
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781911036678
• ISBN: 978-1-911036-67-8
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 215 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 724 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Music, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, MUSIC / Business Aspects, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Discography & Buyer's Guides, Popular music, easy listening