From: Sharon Cheslow <decomposition AT mindspring.com>
To: "'Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)'" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] Riot Grrrl: genre vs. musical-political ethos
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:57:41 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Tobi is also one of the smartest musicians in rock and roll!
If you can find any old Jigsaws, I highly recommend reading them. What she
wrote in the '90s is still relevant now to everything we're talking about -
both past and present (and future?)...
Sharon
>From: Tobi Vail
>but i think it's a mistake to dismiss
>music as being traditional when it's uitlizing/appropriating old forms
>for new uses...like yoko ono's approximately infinite universe--it's
>not a pop record, it's a record that experiments with pop forms as a
>means of communicating radical ideas (feminist, revolutionary,
>etc)...that doesn't make it any less experimental than the plastic ono
>band's why/why not...in my opinion they are both doing the same thing,
>just in different ways