Electric Ladyland Women and Rock Culture (Audible Audio Edition) Lisa L Rhodes Laura Faye Smith University Press Audiobooks Books
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With the explosion of rock music in the mid-1960s, women arrived - as performers, critics, and fans. While operating in radically different ways within rock culture, female musicians, journalists, and groupies rewrote women's roles on and off the stage in the 1960s and 1970s.
Electric Ladyland is a social and cultural history of this formative era in rock and roll, examining how the changing roles of women were intertwined with the evolution of the music. Articles and reviews from Rolling Stone and the Village Voice provide a window on a time when female musicians such as Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, and Joni Mitchell battled sexism from concert promoters and mainly male reviewers. Feminist rock journalists, however, were coming into their own. In particular, Ellen Willis, music critic for the New Yorker, and Lillian Roxon, author of the influential Rock Encyclopedia, transformed the way society perceived sometimes marginalized female performers.
The groupie was born at the same time, and Rhodes devotes considerable attention to the rise of this phenomenon. Through journalistic accounts as well as personal interviews with groupies of the 1960s and 1970s, she explores these women's dual legacy of self-assertion and promiscuous behavior that resonates to this day through the popularity of such films as Almost Famous.
Deeply informed by critical media studies and drawing on diverse and rich sources, Electric Ladyland assesses the lasting effects of cultural representations on female sexuality and gender roles.
The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
Electric Ladyland Women and Rock Culture (Audible Audio Edition) Lisa L Rhodes Laura Faye Smith University Press Audiobooks Books
Born in 1959, I was going through my sexual liberation and gender identity issues as a teen in the 1970s. As a music lover and ultimate fan of rock, my "bible" was Rolling Stone Magazine. Even though I read it cover to cover every month, I never felt completely linked and connected to it. I couldn't put my finger on it. This book explains why perfectly. Jann Weiner was a classic male chauvinist pig, and may still be today. Even though the revolution was happening in the 60s and 70s, he was as old school boy network as they came, and held women down whenever possible, it seems.This book is not all about Weiner, but about so much more. This book has informed me immensely on the role of women in the subculture of rock and roll. I relate to the groupies she writes about, and the virtues of such writers as Lillian Roxon and Ellen Willis, as well as the author herself.
I'll leave the more academic reviews for others more eloquent, but I LOVED THIS BOOK. I feel empowered and energized to proudly let my freak groupie flag FLY! Great book, Lisa!!!
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Electric Ladyland Women and Rock Culture (Audible Audio Edition) Lisa L Rhodes Laura Faye Smith University Press Audiobooks Books Reviews
This book could have been good if it had checked the facts and some of the quotes.
Spelling people's names wrong- all of it!
I was shocked too that this Pennie Trumble person was so big headed. Cameron Crow HIMSELF in various interviews and in the extended DVD of Almost Famous has mentioned his influences BY NAME. Yes, Penny is one but so is Bebe Buell.
They left out huge chunks of facts that could have really lent to the flow of the read.
Sorry but this book shows bias and is not very good at all.
I read this book while doing my senior thesis on the portrayal of female rock musicians in Rolling Stone Magazine during the 1970s. This book was invaluable. Her writing is engaging while her evidence frequently appalling. It's also spot-on. Pick up a Rolling Stone from that era and you're bound to find discussions of tampons wet with orgasms (see Labelle's cover story in '75), with a large portion of its (nude and sexually objectifying) advertisements coming from Oui, a porn magazine. When I later shared in with an American Studies graduate-level course, several people shared my fascination and respect for Rhodes and this work. A must-read.
Born in 1959, I was going through my sexual liberation and gender identity issues as a teen in the 1970s. As a music lover and ultimate fan of rock, my "bible" was Rolling Stone Magazine. Even though I read it cover to cover every month, I never felt completely linked and connected to it. I couldn't put my finger on it. This book explains why perfectly. Jann Weiner was a classic male chauvinist pig, and may still be today. Even though the revolution was happening in the 60s and 70s, he was as old school boy network as they came, and held women down whenever possible, it seems.
This book is not all about Weiner, but about so much more. This book has informed me immensely on the role of women in the subculture of rock and roll. I relate to the groupies she writes about, and the virtues of such writers as Lillian Roxon and Ellen Willis, as well as the author herself.
I'll leave the more academic reviews for others more eloquent, but I LOVED THIS BOOK. I feel empowered and energized to proudly let my freak groupie flag FLY! Great book, Lisa!!!
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