Links dump - girls rock edition
Let me take a moment to gush over my baby cousin:
She’s 3.5 years old and already owns your ass. Just sayin’. I figured that was a good opening for some links on girls and music:
- Girls Rock Philly. “Girls Rock Philly (GRP) is an initiative to bring Philadelphia a girls-only, week-long summer day camp serving junior rockers ages 9-17. Led by a team of all female instructors & band coaches, girls in the program learn how to play musical instruments, write songs, make their own band merchandise, discover other women in rock & finesse their on-stage jump kicks.”
- Girls Rock! The Movie. “At Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp, girls ranging in age from eight to 18 are taught that it’s OK to sweat like a pig, scream like a banshee, wail on their instruments with complete and utter abandon, and that ‘it is 100% okay to be exactly who you are.’”
- Women in Punk (1975-1980). Compiled and edited by artist/musician Sharon Cheslow, this is a giant list of female punk musicians.
- One War Art.org: The Riot Grrrl Manifesto. Reprint of the 1991 manifesto.
- Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution. “Sara Marcus’s Girls to the Front is not only a historical rockument of the revolutionary 90s counterculture Riot Grrrl movement, which birthed the DIY feminist punk scene, but also a rousing inspiration for a new generation of empowered rebel girls to strap on guitars and stick it to The Man.”
- I Fry Mine in Butter.com: We’re in Effect: Hip Hop’s Feminist Role Models. “While these ladies may or may not consider themselves feminists, as a young hip-hop fan looking for tracks that I could rap along to without 1) contorting my voice into deep tones, 2) having to change all the pronouns, and 3) convincing myself that the “hoes” referenced in the songs I was rapping to had nothing to do with REGULAR black women, I found them inspiring and much easier to enjoy. Roll call!” (Video heavy)
- Eserver.org/race/: Sexism and Misogyny: Who Takes the Rap? Misogyny, gangsta rap, and The Piano. (bell hooks). “For the past several months white mainstream media has been calling me to hear my views on gangsta rap. Whether major television networks, or small independent radio shows, they seek me out for the black and feminist “take” on the issue. After I have my say, I am never called back, never invited to do the television shows or the radio spots. I suspect they call, confident that when we talk they will hear the hardcore “feminist” trash of gangsta rap. When they encounter instead the hardcore feminist critique of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, they lose interest.”
