Hole's Live Through This Contributor(s): Crawford, Anwen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1623563771 ISBN-13: 9781623563776 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Genres & Styles - Rock - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Dewey: 782.421 |
LCCN: 2014027510 |
Series: 33 1/3 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 4.7" W x 6.4" (0.30 lbs) 144 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Courtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow she is pitied, and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, Live Through This, awoke a feminist consciousness in a generation of young listeners. Live Through This arrived in 1994, at a tumultuous point in the history of American music. Three years earlier Nirvana's Nevermind had broken open the punk underground, and the first issue of a zine called Riot Grrrl had been published. Hole were of this context and yet outside of it: too famous for the strict punk ethics of riotgrrrl, too explicitly feminist to be the world's biggest rock band. Live Through This is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives - so why is Courtney Love's achievement as a songwriter and musician still not taken seriously, two decades on? |