Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music [Hardcover]

Mavis Bayton (Author)

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Publication Date: 1998

This is a study of women playing instruments in bands: pop, rock, indie, soul etc. from the punk era until today. The author, an academic and musician, carried out over 100 interviews with women playing in British bands from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. Although the book is primarily sociological, it is easily accessible to the general reader and rich with quotations. It explains the shortage of female instrumentalists and explores the routes and life experiences that have been taken by those exceptional women who do play in bands.

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"A very well documented description of the inner workings of all-girl bands in London."--Ethnomusicology

About the Author

Mavis Bayton is Tutor in Sociology, Ruskin College, Oxford.

Product Details

Hardcover: 264 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 019816615X
ISBN-13: 978-0198166153
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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This review is from: Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music (Hardcover)

My landlady in Oxford was Mavis. I had known her for years as my younger brother was a drummer in one of her bands (Jane goes Shopping).I am a native of Oxford although I live now in Vietnam via the Sudan,Spain and France.
Her book contains the perspective of a respected academic at Ruskin College,Oxford with the experience of a performing artist with a recording carer behind her.Check out the LP "The Mistakes at the Caribbean Club".It is a hard to beat combination.A unique and valuable book

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