Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• MARY CELESTE KEARNEY
• ROXANNE SAMER
• WILLIAM WHITTINGTON

Titel

Riot Grrrl: It’s Not Just Music, It’s Not Just Punk

Ist Teil von

• Spectatorship, 2017, p.125

Ort / Verlag

University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To call herself a Riot Grrrl, a woman need only rally to the slogan “Revolution Girl Style Now” and appreciate bands like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, whose aggressive, unpolished sound has much in common with the early punk rockers. . . . Indeed, the movement is above all a triumph of punk, a genre not normally noted for its enlightened attitude toward women. Riot Grrrls say they owe their existence to punk’s do-it-yourself ethic: if you have something to say, pick up a guitar, write a song and say it.² Since the members of punk bands such as Heavens to