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

[Nicole Emmenegger <nicole AT jennywoolworth.ch>]

    The British Library is host to an amazing website of archival sound recordings (http://sounds.bl.uk/) including the ICA talks: "1,000 hours of recordings of events at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, in the Mall, London - made in the period 1981-1994." (http://sounds.bl.uk/Browse.aspx?collection=ICA-talks).
     The subject matters discussed reach across the cultural spectrum and there is a substantial section on music worth a good trawl. Some highlights include:
    
    - a discussion from 1984 between Greil Marcus, Jamie Reid (designer of the Sex Pistols' graphics) and Jon Savage on the subject of pop situationism. (http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=024M-C0095X0480XX-0100V0.xml)
    
    - an interview with Laurie Anderson from 1990 (http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=024M-C0095X0654XX-0100V0.xml)
    
    - a discussion from 1988 between Vivien Goldman, Simon Frith and Jon Savage on "music for pleasure" (http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=024M-C0095X0391XX-0100V0.xml)
    
    
    Enjoy!
    Nicole
    
    
    p.s. By the way, the ICA is sadly under threat of closure (http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jan/23/ica-closure-threat)