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  • From: ryan chowdhury <ryanchowdhury AT yahoo.com>
  • To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] SUBMIT BLURBS PLEASE! We're up to 22 must-haves!
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 08:17:26 -0700 (PDT)

manicured noise are a good example of this...girls in
the rhythm section, boys on vocals, gtrs & sax. but I
think the recent retrospective cd--the two pre singles
plus a lot of unreleased stuff-- is only available as
an import?


--- J Neo Marvin <j_n_e_o AT hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> >Since Chuck brought it up, I had been thinking
> about
> >the issue of girl singers. On one hand, a lot of
> the
> >bands with female singers I suppose were def.
> >empowering, but at the same time is it important
> >enough to recommend a band which is basically some
> >boys adding that trendy girl singer for appeal...or
> >maybe it's all splitting hairs.
> >
>
> On the other side of the coin, it's probably not
> crucial for this particular
> list, but what about bands that were mostly male but
> included female
> instrumentalists? That was considerably more
> revolutionary in the late
> 70s...I'm figuring that Tina Weymouth, Gaye Advert,
> Pat Place and Adele
> Bertei in the Contortions, etc etc might have had
> just as much if not more
> influence on a lot of young women at the time as far
> as inspiring the
> thought, "I could do that!" The so-called "chick
> singer" was
> well-established, but women picking up instruments
> in LOUD bands that
> weren't folky or jazzy was the real sea change.
>
> Just musing a bit here...carry on...
>
> -J Neo Marvin
>
>
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