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  • From: Joly MacFie <joly AT punkcast.com>
  • To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] New book: Women of the Underground: Music
  • Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:05:36 -0400

That's a pretty esoteric but highly interesting spectrum of interviewees.

I'm particularly interested to hear more from people like Teresa and Deanna.

I wonder which Slymenstra that is - there have been more than one I think.

Ordered!

j

WOMEN of the UNDERGROUND: MUSIC  Cultural Innovators Speak for
Themselves - interviews by Zora von Burden, 264 pages, ISBN
978-1-933149-19-6, $15.95, 5.5x8.5 paperback, Music/Women's Studies

Featuring new interviews with: Wanda Jackson - Miss Mercy (GTOs) - Moe
Tucker (Velvet Underground) - Nina Hagen - Lydia Lunch - Adele Bertei
(The Contortions) - Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle) - Jarboe
(Swans) - Slymenstra (Gwar) - Patricia Morrison (Sisters of Mercy) -
Teresa Nervosa (Butthole Surfers) - Ana da Silva (The Raincoats) -
Kembra Pfahler (The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black) - Pam Tent (The
Cockettes) - Pauline Black (The Selecter) - Laurie Anderson - Mary
Huff (Southern Culture on the Skids) - Sean Yseult (White Zombie) -
Phoebe Legere - Deanna Ashley (Frightwig)

In a series of twenty candid interviews with influential women
musicians, author Zora von Burden gives the forerunners of this
generation a voice, and probes the depths of how and why they broke
through society’s limitations to create works of outstanding measure.
Among the musical genres covered are rock, punk, goth, industrial,
electronica, performance art, and more.

Author Zora von Burden was born and raised in San Francisco,
California. A frequent contributor to the San Francisco Herald, von
Burden also wrote the screenplay for Geoff Cordner’s underground cult
classic film, Hotel Hopscotch.

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