I'd not thought of writing such a book at all, myself, actually, since I don't know a lot about many of the female singer-songwriters (you know, the Alanises and sub-Alanises and all the post-Bjork quirk girls in Britain and Sweden and Australia), and also, my general feeling is that most of them are substantially full of shit, sometimes lovably so and to good aesthetic effect, often not, so I'm not sure I'd want to write such a book, though editing an anthology on the subject could be interesting, as would learning about all of these full-of-shit singers. I also don't trust my meager knowledge of feminism to write the "relate-it-to-feminism" version of the book, but indeed that would be a fine book, if we can find someone to write it. Feminism has always had a fraught relationship with femininity.
But anyway, THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF BOOKS THAT NEED TO COME INTO EXISTENCE, NOT JUST THIS ONE. So, a call to my readers: what music stories need to be told that aren't getting told?
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I'd not thought of writing such a book at all, myself, actually, since I don't know a lot about many of the female singer-songwriters (you know, the Alanises and sub-Alanises and all the post-Bjork quirk girls in Britain and Sweden and Australia), and also, my general feeling is that most of them are substantially full of shit, sometimes lovably so and to good aesthetic effect, often not, so I'm not sure I'd want to write such a book, though editing an anthology on the subject could be interesting, as would learning about all of these full-of-shit singers. I also don't trust my meager knowledge of feminism to write the "relate-it-to-feminism" version of the book, but indeed that would be a fine book, if we can find someone to write it. Feminism has always had a fraught relationship with femininity.
But anyway, THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF BOOKS THAT NEED TO COME INTO EXISTENCE, NOT JUST THIS ONE. So, a call to my readers: what music stories need to be told that aren't getting told?