Iggy Pop once said of women: "However close they come I'll always
pull the rug from under them. That's where my music is made." For
so long, rock 'n' roll has been fueled by this fear and loathing of
the feminine. The first book to look at rock rebellion through the
lens of gender, "The Sex Revolts" captures the paradox at rock's
dark heart--the music is often most thrilling when it is most
misogynist and macho. And, looking at music made by female artists,
it asks: must it always be this way?
Provocative and passionately argued, the book walks the edgy
line between a rock fan's excitement and a critic's awareness of
the music's murky undercurrents. Here are the angry young men like
the Stones and Sex Pistols, cutting free from home and mother; here
are the warriors and crusaders, The Clash, Public Enemy, and U2
taking refuge in a brotherhood-in-arms; and here are the would-be
supermen, with their man-machine fantasies and delusions of
grandeur, from Led Zeppelin and Jim Morrison to Nick Cave and
gangsta rap. The authors unravel the mystical, back-to-the-womb
longings of the psychedelic tradition, from Pink Floyd, Jimi
Hendrix, and Van Morrison to Brian Eno, My Bloody Valentine, and
ambient techno. Alongside the story of male rock, "The Sex Revolts"
traces the secret history of female rebellion in rock: the
masquerade and mystique of Kate Bush, Siouxie, and Grace Jones, the
demystifiers of femininity, like the Slits and Riot Grrl, tomboy
rockers like L7 and P. J. Harvey, and confessional artists like
Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, and Courtney Love.
A heady blend of music criticism, cultural studies, and gender
theory by two of rock's keenest observers, "The Sex Revolts" isset
to become the key text in the women-in-rock debate.
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