She Bop The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music. Revised Third Edition

Name: She Bop The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music. Revised Third Edition
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ISBN: 9781908279279

ISBN-10: 1908279273

ISBN-13: 9781908279279

Edition: 3rd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Lucy O'Brien

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She Bop is the definitive in-depth study of women in popular music. Drawing on more than 250 firsthand interviews, it covers nine decades of musical history, from ragtime and vaudeville to punk and hip-hop, and features a remarkable cast of trailblazing female performers: Ella Fitzgerald and Madonna, Billie Holiday and Whitney Houston, Dusty Springfield and Beyonce, and many, many more. First published in 1995, She Bop was widely praised as "a contemporary classic" and "a must for any serious muso's bookshelf". It became a key text on numerous university and college courses, and has had a major impact on writing about women in music. To coincide with the second edition, published in 2002,…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Outline Press, Limited
Publication date: 12/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Music critic Lucy O'Brien has contributed to many publications, including the Sunday Times (London), Marie Claire , Cosmopolitan , and Q . The author of She Bop and She Bop II , as well as acclaimed biographies of Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox, O'Brien lives in London and teaches at Westminster University and the University of London's Goldsmiths College.