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HIT GIRLS: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983, discussion and book signing with author Jen Larson and special guests including
Ann Magnuson, Pleasant Gehman and Ginger Coyote, and just added: Genny Schorr aka Genny Body of the L.A. band Backstage Pass!
Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarchy since Sister Rosetta Tharpe [the Black female founder of rock 'n roll] first played the guitar riffs that built rock-n-roll.
The explosion of punk sent shockwaves of revolution to every girl who dreamed of being on stage. Punk godmothers Suzy Quatro, The Runaways, Patti Smith, Poison Ivy, Tina Weymouth, [Dinah Cancer of 45 Grave,] Debbie Harry [Blondie], The Go-Gos, and Fanny’s Millington sisters provided the template for thousands of girls and women throughout the United States to write and record their songs.
Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983 by author Jen Larson is the story local and regional bands whose legacy would be otherwise lost. Despite the modern narrative labeled women anomalies in rock music, the truth is: Women played important roles in punk and its related genres in every city, in every scene, all over the United States.
The women and bands profiled by Jen B. share their experiences of sexism and racism as well as their joy and successes from their days on stage as they changed what it meant to be in a band.
These pioneering women were more than novelty acts or pretty faces. They were fully contributing members and leaders of mixed-gender and all-female bands long before the call for “girls to the front.”
The women of Hit Girls are now rightfully exalted to cult status where their collective achievement is recognized and inspiring to new generations of women rockers. Included are interviews with: Texacala Jones, Stoney Rivera, Mish Bondaj, Alice Bag, Nikki Corvette, Penelope Houston, and many more formidable and infamous women who made their voices heard over the screaming guitars.
Hit Girls includes over 100 rare and never-before seen images.
Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983 by author Jen Larson is the story local and regional bands whose legacy would be otherwise lost. Despite the modern narrative labeled women anomalies in rock music, the truth is: Women played important roles in punk and its related genres in every city, in every scene, all over the United States.
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