Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061806366 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Essential reading Mark Andersen This is a powerful rendering of some crucial years, a time that still resonates today in phenomenon like Pussy Riot and Girls Rock! I was part of this moment, and it still matters immensely to me this book is a worthy document, and the result of painstaking research check it out if you can!. This the type of media exposure the girls wanted all along. It seems like Sara Marcus went above and beyond to get all of the different voices that made up the Riot Grrrl revolution. It wasn't about what music they listened, what they wore or how they fashioned their hair, it shows the movements purpose. She clarified a few points ( I always wondered how Courtney Love ended up being linked to it) and she makes it a point to not single out Kathleen Hanna as the leader, though it seems natural to want to do s. "the grrl i was loved this book" according to Rachel E. Pollock. Caveat: I was way into Riot Grrrl in the early 90s, so i am not remotely an objective reader of this book. That said, i loved the s*** out of it in a grand, passionate, angry, weepy, wall-punching, boot-stomping way. Perhaps it's partly nostalgia, and perhaps it's partly directionless frustration at a lot of present-day misogyny, but even though this book is far from perfect, i am thanking every last star that Marcus wrote it, and that i read it.
. Thus, writes Marcus in this compelling account, the Grrrl Revolution was sparked. From Publishers Weekly A Brooklyn-based journalist gives a brash, gutsy chronicle of the empowering music and feminist movement of the early 1990s led by young women rock groups like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile. Marcus enthusiastically tracks the "scattered cartographies of rebellion" and captures the combustible excitement of this significant if short-lived moment. Wade, young women were incensed. Politicized by such national events as the backlash against feminism in the press, the first Iraq War, and the Supreme Court's gearing up to review Roe v. All rights reserved. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Hanna, along with Tobi Vail, a fanzine writer (Jigsaw) and former punk rocker who was dat
Author Sara Marcus, a music and politics writer for Time Out New York, Slate, Pos, and Heeb magazine, interweaves research, interviews, and her own memories as a Riot Grrrl front-liner. “For a Second Wave feminist like myself, Girls to the Front evokes wonderfully the way the generation after mine soaked up the promise and the punishment of feminist consciousness.A richly moving story.” —Village Voice writer Vivian GornickGirls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement—the radical feminist punk uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s, altering America’s gender landscape forever. Her passionate, sophisticated narrative brilliantly conveys the story of punk bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy—as well as successors like Sleater-Kinney, Partyline, and Kathleen Hanna’s Le Tigre—and their effect on today’s culture.