Feb 17 2012
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“ I used to try to explain that love didn’t preclude tension and conflict. Once I cracked that my subject was “the bloody crossroads where rock and feminism meet.” As I saw it, the confrontation was good for women because rock and roll liberated aggression: not only anger, though that was of course part of it, but a sense of entitlement to seize the world, uninhibited by the feminine commandment, though shalt not offend.
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Ellen Willis, “Preface to Barbara O’Dair’s Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock” (1997), from Out of the Vinyl Deeps (via sylviawrath)
If you like rock and roll and are looking for some good reading material, may I recommend?
(To be honest I just skipped ahead and read the chapter on feminism first.)
-anna
(via rookiemag)
I had totally forgotten about this quote, but it’s a pretty perfect encapsulation of why I wanted to do the book project I’m working on. Which already has an Ellen Willis quote in its call for submissions. Anyway, that’s no accident — there’s no one better at writing through the conflict between being a feminist and loving a generally misogynist art form.
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