Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music

By Mavis Bayton and Athena Dixon

This is a study of women playing instruments in bands: pop, rock, indie, soul etc. from the punk era until today. The author, an academic and musician, carried out over 100 interviews with women playing in British bands from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. Although the book is primarily
sociological, it is easily accessible to the general reader and rich with quotations. It explains the shortage of female instrumentalists and explores the routes and life experiences that have been taken by those exceptional women who do play in bands.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019816615X
• ISBN13: 9780198166153
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"