GAAR, GILLIAN G. (1959)
She's a rebel. The history of women in Rock & Roll.


Seal Press, Seattle. First printing October 1992. Pink color pictorial trade paperback. 467 pp. 15,25 x 22,75 x 3,25 cm. 660 gr. Design Clare Conrad. ISBN-10 1-878067-08-7. Preface by Yoko Ono. The definitive history of women in rock & roll through the early ninties. From roots, through girl groups and into the future with emerging (at the time) artists like the Indigo Girls, Michelle Shocked, Tracy Chapman and more. Illustrated with black and white photographs.


This is the fascinating story of the women who have shaped rock and roll pop music for four decades. 'She's a rebel' spans the entire spectrum of rock & roll from the early rhythm & blues singers of the 1950s such as Big Mama Thornton - who topped the R&B charts with "Hound Dog" three years before Elvis did - to the women rappers and pop icons of the 1990s such as Queen Latifah and Madonna. In between it covers girl groups, Motown, folk rock and the counterculture of the 60s, the women's music scene and the punk explosion of the 70s, and the all-gril bands and rising stars of the 80s and 90s.


The book is packed with interviews, facts, and lively personal anecdotes from women performers, writers and producers in music industry. Journalist Gillian G. Gaar also provides a provocative commentary on the rock music business, long dominated by men and controlled by money, and how the emerging power of women has brought about significant changes. Compulsively readable and thoroughly entertaining, 'She's a rebel' is a spirited retelling of rock history - from the women's perspective.


Light use. Some minor wear to the spine. Near fine copy.



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