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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock Paperback - 2002

by Gerri Hirshey

Called "a kind of female Cameron Crowe" by the "Chicago Tribune, " Hirshey's narrative is based on original interviews, as she serves up a tasty platter of girl groups and soul queens, acoustic goddesses and priestesses of the avant-garde, punk grrrls, glamazons, and innovators of hip-hop and neo-soul. Photos.


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Rock and roll has traditionally been a boys' game. It has forced female artists to work twice as hard, usually for half the recognition -- but without their contributions, American music would be radically impoverished. Called a kind of female Cameron Crowe by the Chicago Tribune, Gerri Hirshey has been writing about music for two decades. Now, in a narrative based on frank original interviews and a vise grasp of American cultural history, she serves up a tasty platter of girl groups and soul queens, acoustic goddesses and priestesses of the avant-garde, punk grrrls, glamazons, and innovators of hip-hop and neo-soul. We Gotta Get Out of This Place is the passionate history of a century of women in rock that is deft, authoritative, and a sheer delight to read. A literary soul queen, an Aretha of the page ... -- Karen Schoemer, Elle We Gotta Get Out of This Place ... helps set the record straight. -- Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Report Hirshey doesn't write about rock and roll. She writes rock and roll. -- L. D. Meagher, CNN.com Vivid, impassioned, [and] lively. -- Francine Prose, O Magazine

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Women do talk; perhaps it's the intimacies and isolations of domestic life that have made them queens of the cut-to-the-bone colloquial.

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  • Title We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock
  • Author Gerri Hirshey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press, New York
  • Date 2002-06-19
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780802138996 / 0802138993
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.77 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock music - History and criticism, Rock musicians
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00056923
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.66
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