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Girls To The Front: The True Story Of The Riot Grrrl Revolution (2010)

by Sara Marcus(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061806366 (ISBN13: 9780061806360)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: a beautiful, inspiring read about the birth of the Riot Grrrl movement: and in-depth look not just at feminism, but music, culture, and the diy movement that spawned from teenage angst, anger and frustration."Top-Forty artists aren’t cultural movements; they’re ultra-homogenized and uber-marketed holographic projections, aspects of culture that get blown up to Jumbotron size and burrow a pic line to the id. Mass culture always contains cleaned-up, camera-ready variations on the underground, incorporating just enough of what’s “edgy” to maintain its own relevance. Sometimes — if we’re lucky —these transformations result in mass culture that’s more interesting than usual, that entertains in a way that feels surprising, and that perhaps even spreads progress... moreive values. But if a political idea is showing up in mass culture, that’s because it’s happening somewhere else in a more concentrated, grassroots way."
review 2: A pretty good inside view to the Riot Grrrl movement, it's movers and shakers, and those who felt left to the side once the movement started to feel like an insiders club. The pacing gets slow and mired in personal conflict that at times seems to have little to do with the overall movement. However, those personal struggles and interpersonal issues are part of the point, so don't skip over sections. less

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