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Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground (Live Girls) Paperback – December 31, 2004

by Maria Raha (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
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A tribute to the transgressive women of the underground music scene, who not only rocked as hard as the boys, but also tested the limits of what is culturally acceptable -- even in the anarchic world of punk rock

Cinderella's Big Score celebrates the contributions of punk's oft-overlooked female artists, explores the latent -- and not so latent -- sexism of indie rock (so often thought of as the hallowed ground of progressive movements), and tells the story of how these women created spaces for themselves in a sometimes limited or exclusionary environment. The indie music world is littered with females who have not only withstood the racket of punk's intolerance, but have twisted our societal notions of femininity in knots.

Maria Raha focuses on the United States and England in the '70s and '80s, and illuminates how the influential women of this time shaped the female rockers of the '90s and today. Groups profiled range from the Runaways, the Avengers, and the Raincoats to L7, Sleater-Kinney, and Le Tigre, and include women who rarely get featured in "women in rock" titles, such as Exene Cervenka of X, Eve Libertine and Joy de Vivre of Crass, and Poison Ivy of the Cramps. The book features a complete discography and more than 25 photos.

Includes: Patti Smith, Exene Cervenka, Poison Ivy, Siouxsie Sioux, the Slits, Eve Libertine and Joy De Vivre, the Raincoats, Lydia Lunch, Wendy O. Williams, Kim Gordon, Kim Deal, Mia Zapata, Jenny Toomey, Hole, L7, Tribe 8, PJ Harvey, Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, the Gossip, and many more
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    December 31, 2004
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.96 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1580051162
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1580051163
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From Patti Smith and the Runaways to newer stars, veteran rock scribe Raha introduces "the women . . . instrumental in shaping punk and indie underground music," members of "a community which proudly rejects the societal and cultural norms." Contending that "punk rock as a movement has changed the face of music forever," Raha dissects women's involvement in it, including the often-unwanted roles sex and appearance play in the perception of women in rock. The Runaways resembled the Monkees and the Sex Pistols, what with manager Kim Fowley calling the shots and band members chafing under them; Raha compares their career and those of the likes of L7, the Butchies, and Tribe 8, whose forthright lyrics and sonic assaults are more feminist than feminine. She shows that the Cramps' Poison Ivy is a mover and shaker in her own right, like such others as Exene Cervenka, Debbie Harry, and Wendy O. Williams (of the shaving-cream-shirt wardrobe malfunction). Raha lets them all tell their stories in a treasure trove for pop-music and punk-culture cognoscenti. Mike Tribby
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About the Author

Maria Raha works for Spin and Vibe magazines, and has written for Time Out New York, and Bitch. She lives in New York City.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seal Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 31, 2004
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 380 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1580051162
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580051163
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.24 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.96 x 9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #2,856,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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  • Heather Hammen
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book gives great insight into the women of punk rock and is ...
    Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2017
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    This book gives great insight into the women of punk rock and is a wonderful read. It was required material for a class on punk rock but it was easy to read and something that I wanted to read.
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  • VioletMay
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read It!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2013
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    This book is great. It's a great history book, explaining the different musicians and bands from the 70s-00's. I hate to read, but found myself intrigued these amazing women's' stories.
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  • Christine A. Russell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2017
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    Great info on badass women!
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  • angecan
    5.0 out of 5 stars You oughta know more about the Butchies than Morissette
    Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2014
    Format: Paperback
    Being a rock-n-roller at heart, I was initially intimidated by this book, anticipating most references would fly over my head, but I had nothing to fear. Raha is an excellent host to this rollicking, no-holds-barred party with some of the most compelling personalities I've ever met on the page (musicians are rarely a boring bunch, so imagine artists who risk rape, ridicule and years of hard work for possibly zero recognition). Expertly weaving choice quotes and anecdotes with well-drawn portraits of history's "queens of noise," Cinderella's Big Score democratizes the other half of the underground music scene that even now is mostly the province of "people-in-the-know." This is an essential and entertaining read for its facts, folklore and marvelous descriptions of music. I can't recommend it enough.
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  • Avid Listener
    4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2007
    Format: Paperback
    Raha's book is pretty good but has some flaws nevertheless. The author seems to be too harsh on non-indie musicians, as if nothing of any worth has ever come from any of them.

    Also, she seems to be trying to write objectively, but her opinions and tastes come through in her writing sometimes. Just as an example, she doesn't seem to be too fond of Bikini Kill's music(maybe that's just my impression but she seems to feel the need to justify their technical flaws, despite the fact that they weren't any worse than many bands in this book, let alone in punk in general, and the fact that technical aptitude is far from being extremely important in punk. There seem to be some omissions as well, among them neglecting to mention how Mia Zapata of the Gits died and how it affected the community. Still, if that's in order to concentrate on her life instead of her death, then omitting the information was a good decision.

    Despite all its flaws, the book is very informative and serves as a great testament to some of the amazing punk/indie women of the past and present, who, despite their talents, efforts(in many cases both musical and activist) and influence, constantly get overlooked in most punk/indie chronicles.
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  • Trixie
    1.0 out of 5 stars Shoddy research!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2008
    Format: Paperback
    I contributed photos to this piece of poorly researched crock of smelly crap. I could barely stomach the first chapters because I read so many inaccuracies, whether about Blondie, Runaways, Go-Go's, X and others. The author had access to people like myself, who know the dates, quotes, locations, etc. She lifted text from other books, which were not correct either. Terrible research! How can anyone pay any attention to something which has easy to verify mistakes? Horrible horrible horrible. I wrote the author, who said she had researchers. Well, they didn't do their job! Total disrespect for the women she purports to admire. HYPOCRITE.
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  • j. reinhold, esq
    2.0 out of 5 stars more like maria's big disappointment
    Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2010
    Format: Paperback
    as a huge fan of great rock books like Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 and Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (An Evergreen book) i was pretty excited to discover this book--i believe through amazon recommendations. as great as those books are, and they are two of the best, i always felt that the signifigant women of the american music underground and international punk scene are reduced to short mentions, mostly in relation to people with whom they were sleeping. sure exene cervenka and hellen killer get worthy and thoughful mentions in We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, but with 'cinderella's big score' there was finally an entire book dedicated to all the great female rockers of the lastforty years or so, right?

    hell. no. this is a cursory glance at a scattershot selection of musicians and bands. it's almost painfully simple and the terse writing style suggests someone with the bare minimum of skills. i often felt like i was reading some angsty teenager's soppy journal entries and remedial english class essays on her favorite bands. phrases like "abortive" and "s**theap" spring to mind.

    it's a fantastic idea for a book. in fact there are so many bands covered in this book it's an amazing idea for two or three or four books, which if handled by a competent author would be phenomenal reads. and i think that's one of the biggest problems: raha was so excited about this project that she seems to have tried to shoe-horn in every band that fit the mold, but mid project realized what a herculean task she'd undertaken and half-assed it the rest of the way. honestly i learned more about these bands by reading their all music guide entries than the helplessly compiled drivel in this trainwreck of a book. also, no thank you for sullying the title of an excellent sonic youth title.

    boo-urns.
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