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

["Sean Stewart" <sean.stewart AT artspdf.com>]

Greil Marcus and Lester Bangs both write well on this topic, or at least
on bands the bands they were exposed to from this era.  I prefer the wit
of Lester Bangs but his tone would be inappropriate for the encyclopedic
volume of information that Reynold's is going for.  I wouldn't read Rip
It Up as a critical work.

I'll take this time to flog off an Austalian academic/musician/writer
Philip Brophy, whose writing on these topics I do find illuminating...

http://media-arts.rmit.edu.au/Phil_Brophy/AvantGardeRock.html
http://www.philipbrophy.com/projects/rstff/PostPunkGraphics_M.html
http://www.philipbrophy.com/projects/sorck/index.html

Enjoy the free reading!
Sean.



HTRK - www.yourcomicbookfantasy.com | www.myspace.com/htrk


-----Original Message-----
From: typicalgirls-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:typicalgirls-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jason Gross
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 12:56 PM
To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] Reissues, Reynolds, Reminders


>Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:28:56 -0800
>From: "John Caples" <jcaples AT gmail.com>
>
>I think I will read the Reynolds book even though I think he's a
>terrible writer...

Well, to each his own but out of curiosity, who do you think covers 
the same material better?  I'm not being defensive- I'd really to 
know of other writers who cover this area well.

>Any new information on the reissue status of either the Dolly Mixture
>Demonstration Tapes or of the pragVEC thing on Mute?

PV is moving slowly because of John's widow.  That isn't to say that 
she's a bad person but she wants things done right (in accordance 
with what were John's wishes).  As far as I know, the issues seem to 
be how everything is going to be remastered.  Sue is kind of tired of 
how this is dragging out but I keep telling her that they've come 
this far and it seems that they're at the final stages now.  Also, as 
I've learned from doing other reissue projects, these things can take 
YEARS to do...

Best,
Jason

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