Amy Raphael – лучшие книги

Interviews with 14 contemporary female rockers, with overviews of each and an introduction that gives author's stance on women in rock. While few American readers will recognize the U.K. interviewees, Raphael snags extensive commentary from Stateside hotshots Courtney Love, Liz Phair, Kim Gordon and Tanya Donnelly as well as reigning international pop sprite Bjork. Raphael does manage to get these women talking in good ways: Love describes her climb from muse to musician, Nina Gordon recalls her realization that playing music wasn't solely her big brother's turf and Kim Gordon comments beautifully on the physicality of performing rock and roll.

More than two decades on, the music business has changed, but the way women are regarded has not. In this new book, A Seat at the Table, journalist Amy Raphael talks to 18 incredible women about their experiences as musicians and the music industry with fascinating and illuminating results, about learning to speak out, #MeToo, social media, queer politics and the subtleness of everyday misogyny.