Binding: Paperback
Description: " Jessica Hopper's criticism is a trenchant and necessary counterpoint not just on music but on our culture at large." Annie Clark St. Vincent An acclaimed career - spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic reissued with new material Throughout her career spanning more than two decades Jessica Hopper a revered and pioneering music critic has examined women recording and producing music in all genres through an intersectional feminist lens. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic features oral histories of bands like Hole and Sleater Kinney interviews with the women editors of 1970s - era Rolling Stone and intimate conversations with iconic musicians such as Bj rk Robyn and Lido Pimienta. Hopper journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl's empowering insurgence; decamps to Gary Indiana on the eve of Michael Jackson's death; explodes the grunge - era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love; and examines the rise of emo. The collection also includes profiles and reviews of some of the most - loved and most - loathed women artists making music today: Fiona Apple Kacey Musgraves M. I. A. Miley Cyrus Lana Del Rey. In order for the music industry to change Hopper writes we need the continual presence of radicalized women being encouraged and given reasons to stay rather than diminished by the music which glues our communities together. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic published to acclaim in 2015, and reissued now with new material and an introduction by Samantha Irby is a rallying cry for women - centered history and storytelling and a groundbreaking obsessive razor - sharp panorama of music writing crafted by one of the most influential critics of her generation.
Title: The First Collection Of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic Revised And Expanded Edition
Author(s): Hopper Jessica
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374538996
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/6/2021