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

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>Easter Rising, the new memoir by Michael Patrick MacDonald, bestselling 
>author of All Souls: 
>A Family Story From Southie, tells of the authors escape from South Boston's 
>Old Colony 
>Housing Project in the 70s and 80s through the discovery of underground 
>music of the punk 
>and post-punk period. While the author's neighborhood peers and four 
>siblings were young 
>casualties of the streets, crippled or else dead from suicide, drug related 
>crime and violence, 
>bank robberies and jewelry store heists orgainized by the Irish Mafia, the 
>author was 
>wandering out of the Irish housing projects and over the bridge downtown to 
>sneak into 
>shows at local small venues, seeing bands like Mission of Burma, The Clash, 
>and The Slits in 
>their early days. The Slits and bands of the post punk era play a prominent 
>role in the 
>author's teen life (1979-83), helping him to break free of a neighborhood 
>that housed the 
>highest concentration of white poverty in America, and to find the bigger 
>world. 
>A story of roots, rock and rebellion.
>
>Easter Rising (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
>
>myspace.com/easterrising333
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