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>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...
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