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- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jones, Grace
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 JON 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- zangeressen, actrices, fotomodellen, Verenigde Staten, autobiografie
- Description
- As a singer, model, and actress Grace has consistently been an extreme, challenging presence in the entertainment world since her emergence as an international model in the 1970s. In 1980, the always ambitious Grace escaped a crowded disco scene to pursue more experimental interests. Her music also broke free, blending house, reggae, and electronica into a timeless hybrid that led to classic hits such as “Pull Up to the Bumper” and “Slave to the Rhythm.” In the memoir she once promised never to write, Grace offers an intimate insight into her evolving style, personal philosophies, and varied career
girl groups of the 1960s and their influence on popular culture in Britain and America
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Macleod, Sean
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- popmuziek, zangeressen, Verenigde Staten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1960-1969
- Description
- MacLeod surveys hundreds of girl groups that appeared in the United States and in Great Britain during the early 1960s. MacLeod organizes her story around seven leading girl groups: The Shirelles, The Crystals, The Ronettes, The Marvelettes, The Vandellas, the Supremes and The Shangri-Las. MacLeod also reviews the significant influence girl groups had on the many male bands of the 1960s, as well as their influence on the post-‘60s movements, from punk to new wave, ultimately serving as the template for the girl groups and all-girl bands that emerged in the 1980s. Finally MacLeod compares the original girl groups with female performers of today, drawing lines of connection and contrast between them.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Smith, Patti
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 SMI 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- popmuziek, zangeressen, Verenigde Staten, autobiografie
- Description
- This book begins in the Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts between dreams and reality and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico: to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin: to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits: and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith’s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.
a radical life in song
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gilbert, Ronnie
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 GIL 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- muziek, zangeressen, theater, lesbische vrouwen, vrouwencultuur, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Ronnie Gilbert had a long career as a singer, actor, playwright, therapist, and independent woman. Her work for political and social change was central to her role as a performer. Raised in Depression-era New York City by leftist, working-class, secular Jewish parents, Gilbert is best known as a member of the Weavers. Her contralto and vibrant stage presence enriched the celebrated group and propelled Gilbert into a second singing career with lesbian singer Holly Near in the 1980s and '90s.
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