Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

[Dina Hornreich <dinahornreich AT earthlink.net>]

Title: Re: [girlgroup] The The Girl Group Collective's Guide to the Unknown Women Legends in Rock

Dear Friends:

 

Below is a discussion that I initiated at the Girl Group list (which many of you may be members of) and I felt that the discussion is also relevant here. Basically, I was suggesting doing a supplement to an established "Women in Rock/Music" book. Kind of like what Ben Goldberg did with his zine Badaboom Grammophone when he had a section in issue 3 on "The Bands Not In The Trouser Press Guide." Jason Gross, Daphne Carr, and myself are collaborating on this!

 

Read on if you are interested.


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But, anyhow, my point was to discuss creating a hypothetical zine-like supplement to what I've often referred to as the "tortured discourse on women in rock" which means supplementing exactly those books which her review DOES apply (e.g. Rolling Stone Guide, She Bop, She's a Rebel, etc.) with something better!

Again, what would go into "The Girl Group Collective's Guide to the Unknown Women Legends in Music"? Who would you include as among those women artists whose omission has been an egregious error (or who have been relegated to a footnote)? Instead of deconstructing, let's CONSTRUCT!

I'll start: Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Wendy Carlos, Pauline Oliveros, Ikue Mori, Clara Rockmore, Prag Vec, Y Pants, Thalia Zedek, Barbara Gogan, Gudrun Gut, Delta 5, Alison Statton, Lucia Pamela, Mia Doi Todd, Tara Key, Matrimony, The Roches, Barbara Manning, Sue Garner, Lisa Germano, Lois Maffeo, Georgia Hubley, Jenny Toomey, Mary Timony, Carrie Brownstein, Karren Ablaze, Sharon Topper, Laura Ballance, Susie Ibarra, Claudia Gonson, Janet Weiss, Carla Bozulich, Chan Marshall, Lydia Lunch, Sharon Cheslow, Rebecca Gates, Tara Jane O'Neill...

I dunno that list was kinda half-assed! And very Typical Girls-heavy.

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