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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job--despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar's amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington...
Author
Language
English
Description
L.A. in the late sixties. Sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, the sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll Daisy loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour his girlfriend Camila finds out she's pregnant, and Billy goes a little wild on the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Right after the sudden death of her mother--her first and most devoted fan--and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy--the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted. Months later, Greta--still heartbroken and very much adrift--reluctantly agrees to accompany Conrad on the Alaskan cruise her parents...
4) M train
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist. It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.
5) Hold me down
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Gal, a rock star for a hot minute twenty years ago, is back in Boston to play a memorial for her late drummer/best friend when she finds herself freezing on stage at the sight of a face in the crowd. The next day, the middle-aged musician learns that the man she saw has been killed--beaten to death behind the venue--and her friend's widower is being charged in connection with his death. When the friend refuses to defend himself, Gal wonders why and,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Etheridge has lived a life of many blessings-- but has also struggled mightily along the way. Changes in the music industry threated her livelihood; she was diagnosed with breast cancer; and she endured two contentious breakups, all under the scrutiny of the public eye. Then she lost her son Beckett to opioid addiction. Here Etheridge dives into how both joy and sorrow serve as catalysts for growth. In this memoir she creates a rich portrait of success...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Former punk rocker Laura Loss joins with two talented young musicians, Sean and Nathan, to form the group The Mistakes, and as they rise to fame, they must come to terms with their stardom and the volatile bonds among the three.
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
From Bessie Smith to The Supremes, Joan Baez, Madonna, Selena, Beyoncé, Amy Winehouse, Dolly Parton, Sleater-Kinney, Taylor Swift, and scores more, women have played essential role in blues, rock, country, folk, glam rock, punk, and hip hop. In a world traditionally dominated by male artists, women have a stronger influence on music than ever. Yet they remain woefully under-represented in the musical canon compared to their male colleagues. Women...
11) Turbulent sea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Bewitching rock superstar Joley Drake can have any lover she wants. But when her life is threatened, her dangerously sexy bodyguard is the only man she needs. There's just one problem: his shadowy reputation as a secret Russian hit man may put Joley in even greater peril.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The legendary lead guitarist of The Runaways presents a brutally honest memoir in which she opens up about her violently abusive marriage to a metal rocker and how her escape and freedom cost her the sons she stayed in the marriage to protect.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 584 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Girls Like Us" is a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell--and offers an epic treatment of these mid-century women who dared to break tradition.
Author
Publisher
Backbeat Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xi, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Joan Jett, "complete and uncensored, from her days carousing with the likes of The Ramones and the Dead Boys through heavy rotation on MTV and a slew of killer hits, a 1990s regeneration, and her continued unstoppable popularity"--From publisher description.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A "narrative of [rock guitarist and actor Brownstein's] escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue. Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the era's flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of the popular television series Portlandia years later"--Dust...
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll-from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history...
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