a memoir of growing up communist, coming onto the Greenwich Village folk scene, and coming out in the feminist movement
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dobkin, Alix
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 DOB 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- muziek, popmuziek, lesbische vrouwen, feminisme, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Women’s music legend Alix Dobkin for the first time chronicles her rise to fame as the first artist to record an openly lesbian album in 1973. Her story opens much earlier in postwar New York City where she grows up in a Communist family. Dobkin herself joins the party at the height of the McCarthy witch hunts and offers readers a firsthand glimpse of daily life as a young person living under government surveillance. During this time she also matures as a devotee of folk music, having fallen under the spell of renowned performers such as Pete Seeger. Yet it’s after she arrives on the burgeoning folk music scene of Greenwich Village, where she meets the up-and-coming Bob Dylan, Bill Cosby and John Sebastian, among many other rising luminaries, that she achieves her first acclaim as a singer-songwriter. Her music takes on overt feminist dimensions when she joins a women’s consciousness-raising group and comes out as a lesbian