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Rubymusic |
| Sub-title: |
A Popular History of Women's Music and Culture |
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| ISBN10-13: |
1773861018 : 9781773861012 |
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b/w illus |
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Paperback |
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230x155xmm |
| Pages: |
256 |
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.394 Kg. |
| Published: |
Caitlin Press - June 2023 |
| List Price: |
19.99 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| When journalist Connie Kuhns approached Vancouver Cooperative Radio in 1981 to host a music program dedicated solely to playing music by women, there was some doubt at the station that there was enough music by women to fill half an hour-and besides, who would tune in? Such was the underground nature of women's music. Despite the doubters, Rubymusic Radio became a successful program, running for fifteen years, introducing listeners to countless artists through radio, magazines and newspaper columns and on stage at Vancouver's annual Folk Music Fest, and serving as a powerful platform for the feminist movements taking place in Vancouver's punk scene and throughout music history in the 80s and 90s. Rubymusic also served as the launching pad for Kuhns' life-long passion-the preservation of the histories and stories of the women with whom she crossed paths on the airwaves. Here is a time capsule of a pivotal moment in women's music history, with special emphasis on the women's music movement in Canada, including the only written history of the women involved in Vancouver's punk rock scene. Rubymusic also includes over two dozen first-person interviews going back into the early 1980s, featuring a diverse group of women, including Ferron, Etta James, Roni Gilbert, Lillian Allen, Koko Taylor, Gloria Steinem, kd lang, Michelle Shocked, Amy Grant, Ellen McIlwaine, as well as essays on Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, and why Yoko Ono matters. Rubymusic: A Popular History of Women's Music and Culture is a necessary reflection on fifteen years of radio history and forty years in music journalism that contains unparalleled stories of women who fought for the right to be heard. |
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"Connie Kuhns' Rubymusic is an act of loving social labour and a brilliant love letter to the 'beginnings' of Women's music. From the epicenter of it all, Connie meticulously researched and created an encyclopedic archive that is gritty, insightful, moving, complex, and deeply rewarding. This is a story of how women, on the heels of feminism (with its limitations and its idealisms), dreamed and created new possibilities for women's voices, gave us some great and glorious music, and built a movement that has and continues to transform our communities and music culture. Connie Kuhn's writing reaches into the past and swirls us into memorable and surprising details, tussles, turns and intriguing accounts of this unfolding revolution of women's voices in music, gloriously illuminating the ever-present spiritual, societal, and social legacy of this movement." -- Lillian Allen, two-time JUNO Award winner, dub poet and university professor
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