Girls to the Front, Sara Marcus
Girls to the Front, Sara Marcus
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Girls to the Front
The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

Author: Sara Marcus

Narrator: Julie McKay

Unabridged: 11 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/22/2017


Synopsis

Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement: the radical feminist punk uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s, altering America's gender landscape—and soundscape—forever. Author Sara Marcus, a cultural historian and critic who's written for Rolling Stone, the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, and The Nation, interweaves research, interviews, and her own memories as a Riot Grrrl front-liner. Her passionate, sophisticated narrative brilliantly conveys the stories of punk bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Heavens to Betsy—whose successors include Sleater-Kinney, Partyline, and Kathleen Hanna's Le Tigre—as well as the legions of young feminists who listened up, became inspired, and made their own revolution.

About Sara Marcus

Sara Marcus is a writer and musician. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Bookforum, and Los Angeles Review of Books, and in the books No Regrets and The Essential Ellen Willis.


Reviews

Goodreads review by julieta on May 30, 2022

When the riot grrl movement was happening in the 90's, I was growing up in Tijuana, and playing in my first bands. I really had no clue all this was going on, so it was great to read about all these teenage girls getting together and speaking about how they felt about being women in the 90's. What I......more

Goodreads review by Alexis on February 01, 2011

I felt profoundly disappointed by this. I feel almost as if I had another expectation of what Riot Grrrl was, and this book sort of killed it. Sadly, I felt like there was a structural problem to this book. The author was either too in love with the subject, or she wasn't removed enough from the acti......more

Goodreads review by Ciara on April 14, 2011

i was nervous but excited to read this book. i bought it six months ago & kept putting it off because i wanted to be able to really relish it, & i kept thinking i should read my library books first. & i always have a new library book. but i finally read this last week & it was awesome. first of all,......more

Goodreads review by Alka on March 19, 2022

Takie książki chcę czytać!💪🏻💜......more