Hole's Live Through This

di Anwen Crawford (Autore)

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015

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?

• Autore: Anwen Crawford
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Collana: 33 1/3
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 144 p.
• Dimensioni: 164 x 120 mm
• Peso: 140 gr.
• EAN: 9781623563776

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