She Bop Ii / Edition 2

by Lucy O'Brien

Overview

Popular music grew out of ragtime, vaudeville and the blues to become global mass entertainment. Women like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith were the original pop divas, yet eighty years after they blazed a trail, have their successors achieved the recognition and affirmation they deserve? Or has the only was to success been to slot into saleable images of the cute baby or sexy chanteuse?

Lucy O'Brien has written the ultimate hands-on history of women in rock, pop, and soul. Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dusty Springfield, Patti Smith, Madonna, Joni Mitchell, whitney Houston, Courtney Love, Alanis Morissette, Destiny's child - all the key names are here. But She Bop II refuses to look at women artists simply as personalities, problems or victims. From dream babes to rock chicks, riot grrrls and ragamuffins, girlpower, Lilith Fair rock and the rise of the corporate diva, She Bop II is the uncompromising story of women as creators and innovators.

Lucy O'Brien is the author of two previous books: the bestsellers Annie Lennox (1991) and Dusty (1989). She has contributed to the Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer, Marie Claire, New Musical Express and The Face, and worked extensively in TV and radio, as both guest pundit and producer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826472083
Publisher:	Continuum International Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	548
Product dimensions:	1.11(w) x 8.50(h) x 5.50(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vii
	Prologue	ix
	Introduction	1
1	Riffin' the Scotch: From Blues to the Jazz Age	9
2	Stupid Cupid: Dream Babes in 1950S Pop	39
3	The Real Thing: Motown, Spector and 1960S Svengalis	66
4	Can the Can: Whatever Happened to the Rock Chick?	99
5	Final Girls: Punk, Performance Art and Pmt Pop	132
6	Ladies of the Canyon: Female Singer/Songwriters of the Grand Hotel	179
7	Lipstick Traces: Madonna, Manipulation and MTV	210
8	She Wears the Trousers: Artistry, Androgyny and the Lesbian Question	249
9	I Wanna Dance with Somebody: Deconstructing the Disco Diva	278
10	In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: The True Story of Women in Rap and Reggae	315
11	Oye Mi Canto: Hear My Voice: Women in World Music	350
12	Talkin' Tough: The Enemy Within: Women and Protest Pop	382
13	Talkin' Business: Nuts 'N' Bolts and All the Necessaries	412
14	Girlpower!: the New Generation	459
	Notes	493
	Selected Discography	508
	Selected Bibliography	510
	Index of Names	513
	Index of Albums and Singles	522