Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways by McDonnell, Evelyn

Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780306820397)

Author: Evelyn McDonnell
Product Type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways by McDonnell, Evelyn

Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways

$39.00
Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways by McDonnell, Evelyn

Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways

$39.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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In four years the teenage members of the Runaways did what no other group of female rock musicians before them could: they released four albums for a major label and toured the world. The Runaways busted down doors for every girl band that followed. Joan Jett, Sandy West, Cherrie Currie, lead guitarist Lita Ford, and bassists Jackie Fox and Vicky Blue were pre-punk bandits, fostering revolution girl style decades before that became a riot grrrl catchphrase.

The story of the Runaways has never been told in its entirety. Drawing on interviews with most of this seminal rock band's former members as well as controversial manager Kim Fowley, Queens of Noise will look beyond the lurid voyeuristic appeal of a sex-drugs-rock'n' roll saga to give the band its place in musical, feminist, and cultural history.

Author: Evelyn McDonnell
ISBN-10: 0306820390
ISBN-13: 9780306820397
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2013
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.33w x 1.25d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/06/2013 pg. 11
By Evelyn McDonnell
By Evelyn McDonnell
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Evelyn McDonnell is associate professor of journalism at Loyola Marymount University. She has been writing about popular culture and society for more than 20 years. She is the author of four books: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways, Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids and Rock 'n' Roll, Army of She: Icelandic, Iconoclastic, Irrepressible Bjork and Rent by Jonathan Larson. She coedited the anthologies Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop and Rap and Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth. She lives in Los Angeles.

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