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

[Helen McCookerybook <helen_mccookerybook AT yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi Lani,
i'll definitely remind you.
And the sweeping under the carpet...
well, exactly!
Thanks for your email,
Helen
--- Lani Smith <LSmith AT minlib.net> wrote:

> I can't wait to read it! 
> If you could, please send a reminder when it does
> come out. 
> Hopefully it will be available for people to borrow
> from libraries!!
> Funny how a book born out of a desire to expose
> "female creative energy had 
> been swept under the
> > carpet" is kind of being swept under the carpet!!
> :Lani
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helen McCookerybook
> <helen_mccookerybook AT yahoo.co.uk>
> To: TypicalGirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:15:48 +0000 (GMT)
> Subject: [TypicalGirls] The Lost Women of Rock Music
> 
> > I'm posting this ( and have contacted Dina to OK
> it,
> > thank you Dina!) because I've just found out that
> my
> > forthcoming book, The Lost Women of Rock Music, is
> > going to be available in June this year, and I've
> just
> > discovered it's retail price is going to be £55
> GBP
> > which puts it well out of the price range of most
> > people.
> > I have contacted the publisher, Ashgate, who have
> told
> > me that as an academic book it's normal for there
> to
> > be a short print-run in hardback, which, if it
> sells,
> > then becomes available as a paperback for general
> > consumption.
> > I have no real idea of whether it's worth my
> pushing
> > them on this- it is an academic book, with
> probably at
> > least two chapters that are only of real interest
> to
> > music sociologists or people who are interested in
> the
> > history of British young people in the 1970s and
> > 1980s, but then there is a lot of interview
> material
> > (but not completely unedited interviews) with many
> > women instrumentalists and singers: Ari and Tessa
> from
> > the Slits, Gina from the Raincoats, Gaye Black
> from
> > the Adverts, Rachel and Hester from Dolymixture,
> Nora
> > Normal from the Gymslips, Lucy O'Brien from the
> > Catholic Girls, June Miles-Kingston from the
> > Mo-Dettes, Liz Naylor from the Gay Animals, Mavis
> > Bayton from the Mistakes, Lora Logic from X-Ray
> Spex
> > and Essential Logic, Enid Williams from
> Girlschool,
> > Rhoda Dakar from the Bodysnatchers,  Vi Subversa
> from
> > Poison Girls, and more lesser-known artists from
> bands
> > in London and Brighton at the end of the 1970s.
> There
> > is a case study of how the punk scene 'worked' for
> > getting female players up on stage in the town of
> > Brighton .
> > I also interviewed important figures at the time,
> such
> > as DJ  John Peel, Geoff Travis of Rough Trade and
> > music journalist Caroline Coon.
> > The book discusses the ways women's participation
> in
> > rock are excluded from music histories and why,
> and
> > developed out of a pHD study I did a couple of
> years
> > ago. I was driven to do it out of anger at the way
> so
> > much female creative energy had been swept under
> the
> > carpet and was going to be either forgotten or
> > remembered as a set of silly stereotypes!
> > If anyone would like to write to me about this, my
> > email address is helen_mccookerybook AT yahoo.co.uk
> > I know things have changed for female musicians,
> but
> > sometimes not as much as they should- at least not
> in
> > the UK!
> > Helen Reddington (aka Helen McCookerybook)
> > 
> > www.mccookerybook.com
> > www.myspace.com/helenmccookerybook
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >       
> >
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